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Miles Johnson is the FT’s Rome Correspondent. In over a decade working at the FT he has previously held roles as Capital Markets Editor, Investment Editor and Hedge Fund Correspondent in London. He has also reported on the European debt crisis as Madrid Correspondent and on finance from New York.
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