The government in Rome can’t pretend that it didn’t see this coming, Corriere della Sera protests:
“The coming weeks will see discussions with Europe about how public spending should develop over the next seven years, the period for which the new fiscal rules apply. … Since all this has been known since March, when the new rules were adopted, we would have expected the government to be ready with a proposal to send to Brussels on how much adjustment is envisaged in the next budget and how much flexibility Rome is demanding from the EU on interest expenditure and military spending. So…
