The draft Italian budget 2019 was not officially on the agenda of the European summit in Brussels on Thursday 18 October, but the economic and budgetary orientation of the Conte government has been a matter of indifference to very few European leaders.
“We cannot understand the Italian budgetary proposals submitted to Brussels”, the Austrian Chancellor, Sebastian Kurz, said after the European Council, adding: “we in Austria are not going to pay other countries' debts, and we are...