Industrial Powerhouse Italy: More than Good Wine And Beautiful Women

Italian Ambassador Folco de Luca Gabrielli discusses:

- Eurozone and Euro challenges and Italy's Role within- Eurozone and Euro challenges;
- Ramifications of the ECB's intervention in the Italian debt market; 
- How he rates the measures taken so far to stave off panic: a second package for Greece and a bond-purchase fund;
- Whether there should be a ceiling for the ECB's bond-buying program;
- The ECB president and imminent departure when Trichet leaves in October;
- Chances for more downgrades for Eurozone nations;
- Italy's SME sector and their decision to 'stay small and beautiful'
- Italy's challenges: high public debt - economic disparity - political reform - importing energy needs - bureaucracy- corruption - organised crime;
- Il Cavaliere: Silvio Berlusconi.

"From the North's industrial triangle to the South's subsistence agriculture, Italian Ambassador H.E. Folco de Luca Gabrielli speaks about the differences between North and South
Italy, differences between Malaysia and Singapore through his eyes and whether football truly is a unifying tie that binds Italy together."