On Thursday 9 May, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte criticised the European Commission's “discouraging” assessment of Italy's economic and budgetary situation in the spring economic forecasts it presented earlier this week (see EUROPE B12249A6).
“It is the European Commission's analyses that are discouraging, not our economic figures”, he said on the margins of the European Summit in Sibiu on the future of the European Union Twenty-Seven (see EUROPE B12251A1).
Noting, on the...