Most venture-capital firms do not head abroad with the sole aim of looking for copycats, but plenty of their investments end up that way.

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The result is that Italy may, over the next few weeks, try to form a temporary government backed by a grand coalition of left and right-wing forces with the sole aim of changing Italy's electoral law and then going to a vote again as early as summer.

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