FILE PHOTO: Italian Deputy PM Luigi Di Maio speaking during a news conference in Cairo, Egypt August 29, 2018. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany/File Photo
October 20, 2018
MILAN (Reuters) – Italian Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio on Saturday said the government would not backtrack on a plan to raise the country’s budget deficit to 2.4 percent of domestic output next year.
“I think I can speak for the whole government, I deny any rethinking of the 2.4 percent [goal],” he told journalists in Rome.
(Reporting by Valentina Za. Editing by Jane Merriman)
