AJE speaks to a political analyst on Italy's economy

Italy's prime minister has warned that despite his country's borrowing costs falling, his government still has more to do before it has convinced financial markets that it will be able to manage its heavy debts.

Interest rates paid out on Italian bonds dropped for the second straight day on Thursday, and Mario Monti, the Italian prime minister, said that his government of technocrats was preparing a new package of economic measures to help ease the crisis.

Making sense of the country's economic and political issues is Giovanni Orsina, a university professor and political analyst who speaks to Al Jazeera from Rome.