ROME (Reuters) - If Italy leaves the euro, it will be late on a Friday night. Government officials will have planned the move in the utmost secrecy, telling their European partners only that same ...

The Italian government is set to face off with the EU after threatening of launching a “parallel currency” in a riposte to calls for it to rein in its public spending programme. Is Italy’s budget ...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's main opposition parties are replacing their calls to leave the euro with apparently less radical proposals to flank it with a new currency they say can boost growth and jobs.