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Title: EURO COLLAPSE: Italy to QUIT EUROZONE in final nail of coffin for EU, warns top economist
Post by: rangerrebew on February 10, 2017, 04:40:26 pm

EURO COLLAPSE: Italy to QUIT EUROZONE in final nail of coffin for EU, warns top economist
ITALY could be set to pull out of the Eurozone in what would be the final nail in the European Union's (EU) coffin, Greece’s former finance minister has warned.
By Joey Millar
PUBLISHED: 16:31, Thu, Feb 9, 2017 | UPDATED: 21:38, Thu, Feb 9, 2017


Yanis Varoufakis said there was an “epidemic” among countries using the single currency, with Italy the next to fall foul of Brussels’ economic malaise.

He also said Brexit would “speed up” the break-down of the bloc - before making a dig at Jeremy Corbyn.
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In a fiery interview, to be shown by Al Jazeera TV tomorrow, the economist let loose at the European Union, seven years after the union bailed Greece out in controversial circumstances.

Title: Re: EURO COLLAPSE: Italy to QUIT EUROZONE in final nail of coffin for EU, warns top economist
Post by: Sanguine on February 10, 2017, 07:48:43 pm

It's lasted longer than I expected.