Italy's League will insist Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte takes a tough line...
ROME - Italy’s League will insist Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte takes a tough line in budget talks with the European Commission and will “stop at nothing” to prevent new belt-tightening measures, the ruling party’s economics chief said.
However Claudio Borghi said the anti-austerity government must not flinch and negotiations must not end as they did last autumn, when Rome softened its stance and agreed to water down some of its spending policies. “Last year we were the junior partner so we had to accept a compromise,” he said, adding that now, fresh from its victory in May 26 European parliamentary elections, his party intended to call the shots.
Borghi said he was concerned by remarks on Monday from Conte, a former academic who is close to 5-Star, who said Italy must obey EU budget rules until it managed to change them. Borghi is a long-standing eurosceptic who used to campaign for Italy to leave the single currency. Other League politicians are more moderate, but Borghi insisted that on the budget talks with the EU he was speaking for the party as a whole.
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