Italy’s Minister of Finance, Giancarlo Giorgetti, said that achieving a public deficit below 3% was “possible this year”, on Saturday 20 September in Copenhagen, on the sidelines of the informal meeting of European finance ministers (see other news).
“There’s nothing utopian about that. If we have the opportunity to exit the excessive deficit procedure, it is in Italy’s interest to do so”, he said. He added that: “The global turmoil has not helped us in terms of exports...