{"id":18570,"date":"2018-10-22T16:33:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/?p=18570"},"modified":"2018-10-22T16:33:00","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T13:33:00","slug":"italy-refuses-to-back-down-on-budget-deficit-in-response-to-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/archives\/18570","title":{"rendered":"Italy Refuses to Back Down on Budget Deficit in Response to EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1>Italy Refuses to Back Down on Budget Deficit in Response to EU<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<section>By\u00a0Kevin Costelloe\u00a0and\u00a0Lorenzo Totaro<\/p>\n<p>(Bloomberg) &#8212;\u00a0<\/section>\n<section>Italy\u2019s government refused to back down on its budget targets in its reply to European Union criticism of its 2019 spending plans.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to the European Commission, Finance Minister Giovanni Tria said the government is aware that its plan is \u201cnot in line with the applicable norms\u201d of the EU\u2019s stability pact. The letter said if economic growth is better than expected, the structural-deficit targets may be revised.<\/p>\n<p>Tria also said that the government will intervene should the deficit and debt ratios exceed what is targeted in the budget.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy Refuses to Back Down on Budget Deficit in Response to EU By\u00a0Kevin Costelloe\u00a0and\u00a0Lorenzo Totaro (Bloomberg) &#8212;\u00a0 Italy\u2019s government refused to back down on its budget targets in its reply to European Union criticism of its 2019 spending plans. In a letter to the European Commission, Finance Minister Giovanni Tria said the government is aware<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18572,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18570\/revisions\/18572"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestinsurance.gr\/a1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}