Former Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi, whose political manoeuvring brought down the country’s last government, is confident that Mario Draghi can form a new administration as soon as next week.

Renzi, head of the small, centrist Italy Alive party, told Bloomberg Television’s Francine Lacqua that the former governor of the European Central Bank (ECB) is “the right man in the right place” to tackle the coronavirus pandemic and the country’s severe recession...

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