Rome risks being put under a disciplinary procedure by European partners after it presented an expansionary 2019 budget, revising up fiscal targets compared with goals agreed by the previous government.
“In order to save the budget and avoid an increase in market turbulence ... a small fine-tuning could be considered,” Armando Siri, who acts as undersecretary for infrastructure, told the paper when asked whether Italy could move to lower its deficit forecast.
He added it would be up to Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and his deputies, Luigi di Maio and Matteo Salvini, to decide.
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