Deputy Premier and Interior
Minister Matteo Salvini said Friday that Premier Giuseppe Conte
was in Brussels "to negotiate on a track indicated by
parliament, evidently averting an infringement procedure is
everyone's goal but not at all costs".
Salvini reiterated his view that a procedure for breaking the
debt rule would be "a political act, not an economic one".
The League leader added that he would frame next year's
budget "as soon as possible, before the end of the summer, and I
don't want to go to the polls, let's leave people tranquil".
Italy is trying to find the money to avert an infringement
procedure without a supplementary budget.
Salvini later reiterated ""an infringement procedure would be
a political attack".
He said "I refuse to think that one of the countries that
pays the most into the EU could be sanctioned as the class dunce
for respecting European rules that are bringing us unemployment,
precariousness (in jobs) and debt".
"If (a procedure) were to arrive it would be a political
attack based on political antipathy and not on the numbers".
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