Rule reminder
Italian economic journalism vocabulary: il PIL (Prodotto Interno Lordo = GDP), il deficit, il debito pubblico (public debt), la crescita (growth), la recessione (recession), la ripresa (recovery), i mercati finanziari (financial markets), la Banca Centrale Europea/BCE (ECB), Confindustria (Italy's main employers' federation), i sindacati (trade unions). Economic reporting combines nominal style, precise data, and technical vocabulary with the same conditional/attribution rules as political reporting.
A journalist wants to add that economists predict Italy will enter recession if growth stays this low. Which sentence is most appropriate for Italian financial journalism?