Mr Di Maio and Mr Salvini will serve as deputy premiers, with economist Giovanni Tria, 69, as finance minister. Mr Savona has repeatedly urged Italy to prepare a plan for dropping the common currency. Mr Di Maio will also serve as labour and economic development minister, and Mr Salvini as interior minister. The foreign minister will be pro-European Enzo Moavero Milanesi, a former minister for European affairs. Currently, the head of the Economy Faculty at Rome’s Tor Vergata University, Mr Tria has called for a debate on the euro in both Italy and in the rest of Europe.

Source: Bangkok Post June 01, 2018 08:03 UTC