29/08/2006 (Agence Europe) - While the Italian Council of Ministers is to establish, on 31 August, the broad lines for the next finance law, the minister for European Affairs, Emma Bonino, has voiced opposition to postponing from 2007 to 2008 bringing the Italian budgetary deficit to below the 3% mark imposed by the Stability and Growth Pact. It would be a mistake to “put off the structural reforms that the country needs. Other governments have already chosen to put off reform when the...