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Grim growth numbers follow Italian downgrade 
Election costs Italy another downgrade 
Italian consumers gloomy Italy has been the eurozone’s most sluggish economy for more than a decade. Its economy has been sinking deeper into recession while its public debt has been rising.
Italy’s unsustainable borrowing costs are putting the country at the forefront of the debt crisis.
Is the eurozone’s third largest economy strong enough to fight off the problems?
Business Weekly host Oleksandra Vakulina discusses that with Simon Denham of London Capital Spreads.
Also in programme: What happened when the restrictions designed to prevent a flood of Facebook shares immediately after an IPO, were lifted ? And will business get the gold from the London Olympics?
More about: Debt crisis, Facebook, Italy, Olympic Games 2012, RecessionCopyright © 2013 euronews
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