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Coming up on the program, Italy is

going head to head of the European Commission with its new budget plans. The

government really doesn't seem to have much interest in boosting the sustainable growth rate of the economy.

Elon Musk versus the regulators.

He, like a certain document of the White House, tweets at all the hours of the day and night night and often says things that are aspirational rather than demonstrably true.

How do you replace the world's most important number?

I know you fully appreciate the importance of this index, how widely used it is for all kinds of

transactions.

First, should we be worried about Italy sparking the next Eurozone crisis?

The country's newish coalition government in its first

budget plans to run a deficit of 2.4% of GDP for the next three years. It sidelined its own

finance minister Giovanni Tria who had wanted to get the budget

nearer to balanced and the question is how that's going to go down in Brussels.

The deputy prime minister Mateo Salvini has said that his government will put

the interests of Italians ahead of those of EU bureaucrats.

Ratchenachshanbogue is our Europe economics correspondent.

She's just come back from Italy.

Ratchen and why is everyone worrying so much about this budget?

2.4% isn't so terrible.

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