(ANSA) - BRUSSELS, NOVEMBER 24 - The draft of the Planning and Budget Document, the document that preludes the maneuver that is sent every year to Brussels, "contributes to satisfying the recommendations of the Council to ensure an inclusive and sustainable recovery, giving priority to the green transition and digital". This is what the EU commission writes in its opinion on the draft of the Dpb sent by the Italian government.
"Italy is invited to regularly monitor the use, effectiveness and adequacy of support measures and be ready to adapt them, if necessary, to the circumstances that arise", reads the text of the EU executive which warns about the level of expenditure reached. public.
"The impact of the increase in public spending on Italy's tax position amounts to 1.5% of GDP, it is a significant figure and the Commission invites Italy to take it into account", they explain in Brussels, urging the government to take appropriate measures to limit its increase.
In any case, the guidelines indicated by the European Commission on the Italian Planning and Budget Document are of a "qualitative" type, underlines a senior EU official, specifying that with regard to Italy "no quantitative indication is provided on the necessary adjustments, due to the application of the clause of general safeguard ", which suspends the obligations under the Stability and Growth Pact.
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