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Italy Goes Rogue

Italy Goes Rogue

Rome and Brussels look set to clash over the Italian government's spending plans

Business Daily · BBC World Service

October 8, 201817m 26s

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Show Notes

Rome and Brussels look set to clash over the Italian government's spending plans. What's at stake for the rest of the EU? Manuela Saragosa speaks to Claudio Borghi, economic spokesman of the Lega party, the right wing party now part of Italy's coalition government, and Jeremy Cliffe, columnist at The Economist.

(Photo: A 'debt clock' screen displays Italy's public debt at the Rome's Termini central station, Credit: Getty Images)