of today's news but bigger debts loom and much larger countries if it's this tough for athens what battles lay ahead for rome italy is the third largest economy in the eurozone it is that eighth largest in the world and while it may be home to luxury brands such as ferrari and prague but you see there it's public debt to g.d.p. ratio is the third largest of any industrialized nation it's second only to greece among euro zone nations standing at a towering one hundred twenty per cent now this is one of the countries too that saw its credit downgraded by s.n.p. on friday meanwhile as monti's technocratic government in italy is pushing through reforms and merkel is pledging greater unity for the entire region is that really going to save the euro zone from collapse we may be missing the full story by not knowing what's really going on with in a country like italy here to tell us is calling this for the italian newspaper ill so late he's also a professor of international relations roberto...