Mario Draghi is preparing to detail the 221 billion euros investment plan to rebuild Italy, which is playing its last chance to escape an economic collapse and financial default.
The stakes are just as decisive for the European Union and the euro zone: Italy's recovery depends not only on Europe's participation in the global recovery, but also on the continued integration of the continent and the survival of the euro.
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Coming after the sovereign debt crisis of 2011, then the influx of migrants, the Covid epidemic leaves Italy bloodless and unable to recover without external help.
The peninsula was the first country affected by the pandemic due to the large Chinese community in the north of the country.
It recorded nearly 4 million sick and 120,000 dead and suffered in 2020 the strongest recession since the Second World War.
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The epidemic has thus revealed the extent of the ills of a country that has become a sick man
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