Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said, as he arrived at the European Council meeting on Tuesday 2 July, that Italy now plans to be in line with its budgetary obligations for 2019 in order to avoid an excessive deficit procedure being opened against it.
“Last night, in the Council of Ministers, we passed a bill [...]. We put an additional seven billion euros on the table [...]. These seven billion euros allow us to say that we are in line with the forecasts we had predicted”, he...