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Politico (16 February 2021)

By Hannah Roberts, Jacopo Barigazzi And Giorgio Leali

Italy is expected to get billions of euros from the European Union to help its pandemic-ravaged economy — now it just has to figure out how to spend them. 

To do that, newly installed Prime Minister Mario Draghi has tapped a team of technocrats, academics and politicians to help him dole out the money and reinvigorate an economy that has seen 20 years of virtually no growth and is sitting on the eurozone’s second-largest public debt. 

It’s a team that has come together in recent days, with some politicians being kept the dark on the appointments — many found out only at the last momentthey were in. 

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