25 Jul 2022

Europe correspondent Seamus Kearney

From Nine To Noon, 9:50 am on 25 July 2022
ECB president Mario Draghi said the programme would begin in March.

ECB president Mario Draghi said the programme would begin in March. Photo: AFP

Italy will go to the polls for a snap election in September after the government of Mario Draghi - the country's sixth Prime Minister in 10 years - collapsed. Seamus talks to Kathryn about why so much is riding on this election. In England, travel chaos at Dover has continued into a third day with the British blaming French border staff, but the French say it's the result of Brexit. And what's happening with the Russia-Ukraine deal on grain exports after the Russian airstrike on the port of Odessa?