13/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - Gianni Pittela (PES, Italy) welcomed the positive reception given by the Ecofin Council on Tuesday to measures presented by the Italian minister Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa to clean up the Italian budget (EUROPE 9230). The Democratici di sinistra MEP noted that this document complies perfectly to “economic policy orientations and structural reforms requested by Europe over the years” and that liberalisation reforms announced by the Prodi government for a series of...