Tumultuous 24 hours for eurozone politics
SPANISH Socialist Party leader Pedro Sánchez was sworn in at the weekend as the nation's prime minister after a tumultuous 24 hours not just in Spain, but also Italy, the eurozone's fourth and third largest economies. For Friday, remarkably, saw not just the right-of-centre Spanish People's Party (PP) turfed out of office after almost seven years, but also the formation of the new Italian populist government of Five Star and The League after tortuous negotiations.
Yet, far from ending political uncertainty in the …
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