The European Commission is aiming for an agreement with the Italian government on the macro-economic objectives and measures of the 2017 budget package. Community sources have indicated this. “We have no interest in harboring tensions,” they added.
"The numbers are not those" of the agreements made between the Commission and Italy at the time, but "the key point is to see the numbers and what is behind them", sources of the Brussels Commission tell ANSA about the match in price on the deficit-GDP ratio rose to 2,3% from the 2% of the update note to the Def and from the 1,8% agreed in the spring. “But we are waiting to see the documents – add the same sources – to read them and see how the deviations will be justified. Then we will discuss."
Recently, the commissioner for economic affairs, Pierre Moscovici, recalled that the objective "of the European Commission is not to punish", but rather to "help" the member states to define budgetary policies capable of promoting growth and at the same time to respect the EU budgetary rules that the states themselves have agreed on.
