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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: Oh, and Italy. Joe McKenna A very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good money mate, bonus edition of Joe McKenna this week.

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Speaker 2: We're very excited manufacturing in Italy. So you're down, down, down.

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Speaker 2: What happened to all the Ferraris and the Dultaan and

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Speaker 2: Gabbana Cruz Wheer. I mean, for goodness sake, what are

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Speaker 2: you doing?

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Speaker 1: Look there might still be a little bit of that

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Speaker 1: going on, but overall the Italian manufacturing activity is quite disappointing.

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Speaker 1: Contracted for the seventh consecutive month in October. That's not

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Speaker 1: good news for the Eurozone's third largest economy, and it's

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Speaker 1: bad news for the Maloney government, as the National Statistics

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Speaker 1: Bureau Is said last month that Italian GDP had stagnated

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Speaker 1: in the third quarter compared to the previous three months.

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Speaker 1: I don't think this government is going to reach its

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Speaker 1: economic forecasts, expected to be one percent this year, and

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Speaker 1: we're seeing some downward revisions from the Economy Minister John

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Speaker 1: Carloge or Jetty as well. Well.

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Speaker 2: It could be like us in going backwards. So I

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Speaker 2: suppose growth is does it feel bleak?

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Speaker 1: Though?

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Speaker 2: If you ask one hundred people on the streets does

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Speaker 2: it feel bleak?

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Speaker 1: Look, it's very uneven, and it's always very hard to

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Speaker 1: tell in Rome because Rome is so buoyant with a

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Speaker 1: constant flow of tourism and the hospitality industry seems to

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Speaker 1: be booming. But I think more broadly, I think there

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Speaker 1: is a great deal of concern about the state of

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Speaker 1: the economy and manufacturing and industrial production.

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Speaker 2: Do tell me, because it was the first thing I

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Speaker 2: read in the very early hours of this morning that

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Speaker 2: the government, government, gym and government's on the brink of collapse.

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Speaker 2: How real is that? And how worried does the EU

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Speaker 2: given the size, power, influence and history of Germany. How

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Speaker 2: angsty do you get about that stuff?

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Speaker 1: Well? I was thinking about it today, Mike. I mean

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Speaker 1: the absence, for example, of Chancellor Angelo Merkel, I think

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Speaker 1: is still being felt in Europe. She was such a

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Speaker 1: strong presence and really put the EU on the map,

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Speaker 1: particularly dealing with issues across the Atlantic. Now this government

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Speaker 1: is looking increasingly shaky. There's plenty of infighting, political paralysis,

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Speaker 1: and a faltering economy, But the main issue is that

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Speaker 1: we have a coalition of three different parts. He's pulling

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Speaker 1: in different directions with different solutions to the economic situation,

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Speaker 1: and in particular the Free Democratic Party, which is one

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Speaker 1: of the coalition members, has published a policy paper that

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Speaker 1: is quite controversial, talking about tax cuts and other sorts

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Speaker 1: of things that the government doesn't seem to agree with.

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Speaker 1: So there are all sorts of emergency talks going on

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Speaker 1: at the moment to try and hold it together.

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Speaker 2: Unreal. Of course, it was the migrants that brought Merkle down,

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Speaker 2: and you've got your own still years later, this migrant problem,

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Speaker 2: so Albania is on, despite what we've been talking about

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Speaker 2: for the last few weeks and all the court.

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Speaker 1: Action exactly, the Prime Minister, Georgia Maloney is adamant she's

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Speaker 1: going to push ahead sending more migrants to Albania. We're

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Speaker 1: likely to see another shipment of migrants in the Mediterranean

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Speaker 1: tomorrow heading to those offshore migrant centers because some have

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Speaker 1: been picked up today. But she's got another legal headache.

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Speaker 1: The judges still seem to be pushing back, sitting their

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Speaker 1: own agenda. Sillian judge today scratch the detention of an

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Speaker 1: Egyptian asylum seeker, even though he hails from a country

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Speaker 1: that the Italian government says is safe for repatriation.

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Speaker 2: Do you have a court do you have a court issue?

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Speaker 2: I mean, are those courts broadly seen as interventionist?

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Speaker 1: Well, the government certainly sees it as a rival political power.

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Speaker 1: And we've already seen comments tonight from Matteo Slovini, the

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Speaker 1: Far League leader deputy prime minister, saying, you know, he's

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Speaker 1: had enough of the judges interfering with government policy.

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Speaker 2: All right, I must sketch up with you see your Thursday.

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Speaker 2: Joe mckinner out of Italy filling in for Catherine Field

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Speaker 2: for us this morning.

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