Italian budget climbdown would be just a start
Italy's Minister of Labor and Industry Luigi Di Maio, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini leave at the end of a news conference after a cabinet meeting at Chigi Palace in Rome, Italy, October 20 2018.
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The anti-austerity government may trim its 2019 budget deficit target to defuse a clash with the European Commission. That would ease financial market tensions which risked undermining any benefits of extra spending. The stimulus is still being spent in the wrong places, though.
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