ROME: Facing its deepest recession since World War 2 and with business confidence collapsing, the coronavirus pandemic is hitting Italy’s economy hard.

Business confidence in the eurozone’s third largest economy in May plummeted to its lowest level since official statistics institute Istat started the index in March 2005.

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