This is an audio transcript of the FT News Briefing podcast episode: ‘Javier Milei scores Argentina economy win’ Kasia Broussalian Good morning from the Financial Times. Today

Argentina emerged from a deep recession in the third quarter, with its economy growing more than expected and inflation finally easing, in a major win for libertarian President Javier Milei ahead of the midterm elections next year.

Argentina’s President Javier Milei has been granted Italian citizenship while on a state visit to Italy, a spokesperson for Italy’s Foreign Ministry told CNN.

Argentinian President Javier Milei confirmed Tuesday that he plans to attend the upcoming inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump in Washington

Giorgia Meloni’s government has conferred Italian citizenship on Javier Milei in a sign of the growing rapport between the two hard-Right leaders.

President Javier Milei took office by vowing to slash the public institutions in Argentina — even campaigning with a chainsaw as a visual aid. A year later, some fear the cost will be too high.

Italy's citizenship laws are based on jure sanguinis or "right of blood", and allow even distant descendants of an Italian national to get a passport.