Italian Finance Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti called for the exclusion of certain public expenditures - investments covered by the Italian recovery plan under the European Recovery Plan, Next Generation EU, and military spending, notably in support of Ukraine - from the accounting of an EU Member State’s public deficit, on Saturday 29 April in Stockholm, on the sidelines of the informal meeting of EU Finance Ministers.
It would be “absurd” to force a Member State to choose between...