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What's behind Italy's crisis and why it matters

  • Written by Bruno Pellegrino, PhD Candidate in Business Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
Giuseppe Conte is Italy's newest prime minister. AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia

Editor’s note: Italy managed to form a government after briefly slipping into political crisis, which sent markets around the world into a panic as investors fretted about the fate of the European Union. The crisis began on May 27 when the political party that won the...

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