This is the CBSi of the world. I'm John Batstra. I'm joined by my good colleague Lorenzo

Fiori of the Anseudo Foundation. He's in Italy.

Lorenzo, the climate, we've gone through drought, we've gone through the Alps not having enough snow,

we've seen huge rainstorms, bucketing rainstorms hit Romania.

We know that there is strange weather in Italy, all Italy is divided

into the heat wave in the south and the cold and clouds in the north. Have you got

even stranger weather to report this week? Good evening to you.

Hey good evening John and good evening to all the radio listener. Well I just finished to

listen the latest news at the TV announcing that this weekend we are going to have an increase of temperature which is incredible.

I can tell you that last week do you remember maybe we spoke about that

We were having a lot of stone the Alps

more than one meter in certain air that remain isolated for a couple of days and

this weekend in that area, temperature can increase by 25 degrees, which is unbelievable.

So practically we are having this weekend temperature that are more familiar with the summertime than springtime.

It seems to be very limited the case because next week we should have another

perturbation but it is just to tell you how crazy is the weather now

across Europe but I would say across the globe.

Good news.

The four biggest southern European economies of outgrown Germany by about 5% since 2017,

Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece collectively added more than 200 billion euros of gross

domestic product in price adjusted terms over the past six years, while Germany's GDP has expanded by only 85 billion euros. I remember the

Great Recession of 2008 when Germany was tisking Italy in Greece and Spain and saying maybe we need two Euro zones, one for us

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