Two leading opposition figures in Italy have said the country should stay in the euro, soothing tension around this year's big domestic EU election.
"I believe it is no longer the right moment for Italy to leave the euro," Luigi Di Maio, the head of the 5-Star Movement, said on Italian TV on Tuesday (9 January).
He said "there will be more space for Italy" to steer EU policy in future because "the Franco-German axis is no longer as strong as before".
The 5-Star Movement had...
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