The eurozone is fighting “fires on all fronts”, says Mehreen Khan in The Times. Squabbling in Italy’s governing coalition has left the bloc’s third-biggest economy heading for “a summer of political paralysis”, with the future of prime minister Mario Draghi in doubt.
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