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	Podcast:		World Business Report
	Episode:		New Italian Coalition Could Stretch Economy
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:22:55
	Publish Date:		2018-05-13 20:05:00
	Description:		The government will include the anti-establishment Five Star Movement and the right-wing League. We analyse if Italy's economy can afford the coalition's spending plans with Lorenzo Codogno from the London School of Economics. President Trump has ordered the US Commerce Department to help save the Chinese telecoms company ZTE which is in danger of going out of business because US companies are banned from selling technology to the firm. The oil giants Shell and ENI go on trial on Monday accused of corruption in Nigeria. We hear how it could be a landmark case in the battle against graft in the energy sector in Africa. The BBC's South America Business Correspondent Daniel Gallas reports from Argentina as talks continue with the IMF for a loan to prevent the country's economy from collapsing. And as the five member countries of the Eurasian Economic Union prepare to sign a trade deal with China, we ask Professor Alexander Libman, an expert on the bloc, if Russia has bigger foreign policy priorities.
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