will nominate to the front runner seems to be just that the call to law professor from the university of florence he is leaning two words. that i think populist but the name but only be named tonight in front of the president. and also the minister is not clear it's not clear whether luigi mio and salvini the leader from because their lead the leader from the league of will join the government although it's clear that change instead of have the ministry for grows and unemployment and this is. something very important for the constituency of the my oh he wants to hand out lots of money to the to the people especially in thousand easily all right so could be some lesser known candidates than to name everyone now is a silvio berlusconi could he make another miraculous return to the premiership. at this point no he's put it to sleep debt because he has no say in this coalition but technically he could because the court in milan said that his crony is now free again to take up office and that is going the office to do that actually he asked the president to to assign him to be prime minister but this

maybe not even so in italy but what we do know about him is that each each is a law at the university of florence he's known as being a technocrat not somebody who's got a lot of political experience and we also know that he was the author of the justice program for the five star movement to somebody who's been involved in that side of the politics here there in italy now we know that the two parties want to form this coalition there too populous parties come from the left and the right of the spectrum and despite many many differences during the italian election they have come together of the last few weeks to thrash out this new coalition government document called a government for change and i have to say it's proposing some pretty drastic changes to italian politics which are not going to go down well elsewhere in the european union let's have a look at what some of those a manifesto pledge is on which they voted and agreed on last friday they include scrapping sanctions against russia that's probably not going to be very popular with other members of the european union they've also talking a

who is italy's new prime minister do sepic on to just up the culture here is a professor at university of florence is professor in civil lol he has been making studies also a brooch not only in italy any used to be dubai stress event of the superior council of a minister p. judy sherry so all he has some institution or experience to not only an economic one your old boss prime minister berlusconi says that forza italia will vote against this coalition what did you make of that yell yes apparently dalia decided to vote against old all some hundred forty. people including mr boehner scorning already said eve there will be some proposals corresponding to the center right program on devon gold in favor of and of course the lego is allow layer of mr berlusconi is the problem for him and his buyer the the seventeen billion euro oh five star policy for youth unemployment in italy well it is but on debt five star electoral problem words focusing mainly on unemployment used occupation and may be in point of early helping the younger generation to get a legal job while not only was mainly focusing on securi

a professor from the university of florence could take hold their. under pressure again. that is giving a little bit of a better term to futures. futures is off as france warned italy, do not neglect your fiscal duty in terms of the banks, in terms of the balance sheet. it is a big week in the markets. personalng to get expenditure. the absolute litmus test and line of the fed. anna: we were a worried about trade and also the entire drama. maybe we just go back to worrying about italy this week. pretty flat. ining off highs that we saw this session. the dollar getting a real boost. the dollar much a stronger against a host of currencies this morning. we see much a stronger dollar. now is where we trade right in u.s. 10 year yield. market is boom of open and training in futures, trading at 15862. the rest of the european btp.ex, this is your we just had a conversation with legal and general saying that they don't see this as being the torch deeper of the next euro crisis because the institutions stop this new coalition from doing anything to radical in

giuseppe conte, a 53—year—old law professor from the university of florence, who has never been involvedright lega which actually have much in common. both parties are outspoken on the eu — they are also much softer in their attitude to moscow — both want to deport illegal migrants, and both oppose austerity. so what chances of success? our rome correspondent james reynolds has been taking a look. guiseppe conte begins the first com plete guiseppe conte begins the first complete lack date of his career. italy's prime minister designate, a law professor who has never held political office before must now put together a cabinet. after his meeting with the president on wednesday, guiseppe conte stressed his credentials for the job. translation: i'm ready to defend the interests of italians in europe and internationally, maintaining dialogue with the european institutions and representatives of other countries. i want to be the lawyer who will defend the italian people. but guiseppe conte won't even be the most powerful member of his own administration. the two party leaders who suggested hi

approved the new prime minister will be giuseppe conte, a 54—year—old law professor from the university of florence currency. they want to renegotiate some eu treaties — specifically, those that set spending limits. they have committed to repatriating up to half a million migrants who arrived in italy illegally. they are proposing a two—tiered income tax system, and a fixed basic income for poor families which alone would increase public spending by 2 billion euros. our bbc europe correspondent gavin lee is in rome for us. some of the financial figures have really spooked the markets? yes, they have. certainly wobbles around italy with investors wondering if they should make a move. ultimately we have two mavericks in charge of two populist parties. we have fire starr and we have a euro sceptic parliament and a hard right anti—migrant party. but remember, two and a half months ago, more than half the electorate voted for these two and here in the presidential palace, most leaders met with the president of italy and have asked for permission to form a government. rewind, some of the rhetoric they we

and consulates, oftentimes they draw the short straw and may be at the florence italy consulate where there are a number of universitiesepresented. that's what we like to see is one point person who arriving from various universities representing them locally and who can help saturate from a communications standpoint and increase their awareness. there's always more room for improvement. and it's a very large population as you're describing. i welcome any thoughts on how best to engage from our perspective as well. state department is a fantastic partner but they can only do so much as well. >> i want to chime in because i said earlier, we don't have military -- significant number of military bases in our state but it is the college students for us. i have a breakdown by counties, i can tell which ones are the university towns. they're the ones that have a higher number. and one of the things we're looking at seriously is being more aggressive and working with the universities on their various exchange programs. they know they have groups going, so we need to be more aggressive on just like we did the national guard, p

of his appeal. we had to rome for the latest. this is bloomberg. ♪ julia: "what'd you miss?" an academic with no political experience will lead the government. a law professor at florence university been proposed as italy's next prime minister. what we saw the session today anda weaker stock market, further pressure on italian debt. let's get some context here with our opinion columnist who joins us. great to have you with us. what do we know about this professor and the prospect of him leading the next government? what powers will he ultimately have? >> we know rather little about him, actually. we know he was picked as the government minister and the five-star movement administration. it's one of the two populist parties coming together in the and establishment coalition which could put italy on a collision course with the rest of the eurozone. the big question about him is, if indeed he is given a mandate to form a government in italy, how independent will he be from the leaders of the two parties on the five-star movement side? well.is an irony here as the populist parties have complained for years and years at italy had a succession of technocrats as prime minister's. and ec