Italy’s new government is confident it can exploit friendlier ties with the European Union to obtain a flexible approach to its 2020 budget deficit and avoid a repeat of previous clashes, according to a senior lawmaker.
The coalition headed by Premier Giuseppe Conte will respect EU fiscal rules in the spending plans it’s due to submit to the European Commission by mid-October, Graziano Delrio, who heads Democratic Party lawmakers in the lower house of parliament, said in an interview at his Rome office Monday.