Italy opens for business

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We ask how confident businesses and customers are in Italy as ten weeks of lockdown relax. Cristina Caroli runs a coffee house in Bologna, and tells us what it felt like to be open again. With hotels also allowed to reopen, we discuss the implications of a lack of tourists with Fabio Primerano of the Lombardy Hoteliers Association, who also runs hotels in Milan and Rome. And we consider the economic damage of the crisis with Professor Michele Geraci, who is an economist and was an undersecretary of state in prime minister Giuseppe Conte's former government. Also in the programme, we hear from an artist in Cuba who has put installations to one side, to focus on making personal protective equipment for his country's health workers. Plus, with cities around the world making changes to accommodate more cycling as a result of coronavirus, we talk to Caro Wild, cabinet member in charge of transport in Cardiff, Wales, to hear about big changes to the city's road infrastructure. (Picture: A woman eats at a restaurant in Rome. Picture credit: Getty Images.)