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February 26, 2013

Italy Votes for Chaos and Euro Crisis Is Back

Megan Greene, Bloomberg

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Italy’s parliamentary election could not have gone worse for the country or the euro area.

It is now possible that in the coming months the currency zone’s third-largest economy will need a bailout from international creditors, at a time when Italy will have no government in place to ask for, or negotiate, a rescue. In case you had any doubts, the euro-area crisis is back.

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