Budget
Italy’s parliament approves budget
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Tuesday Italy can look to the future with confidence after parliament gave final approval to the…
European Commission greenlights Malta 2020 budget
Malta’s draft budget was given the green light by the European Commission earlier this week. The European Commission is tasked with looking…
Malta Budget 2020 – The measures, the headlines, the review (UPDATED)
Finance Minister Edward Scicluna presented the 2020 Budget on Monday. This is a review of the salient elements reported and measures announced.…
Malta : Budget date set for October 14th
Malta' s Prime Minister Joseph Muscat announced that the budget for 2020 will be announced on October 14th. The Prime Minister was…
Will Germany ditch the Balanced-Budget pledge? – FT
Any other country that had run a budget surplus for the last five years and was now facing a recession would have…
Italian’s budget for 2020 will focus on growth
Premier Giuseppe Conte told a meeting of trade unions and business representatives on Monday that his government will enter 'phase two' focused…
PM Muscat says government will continue to work to stabilise prices
Although earlier this week Enemed announced an increase in fuel prices, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat has said that the government continues to…
Salvini once more warns about the possibility of early elections
Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has said Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte's government could collapse and early elections called if the…
Italy believes it can satisfy EC demands on public accounts
Italy believes it can satisfy the European Commission’s demands over its public accounts for this year, but the real sticking point in…
Italy set for infringement procedure by EU if figures confirmed
European Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said Wednesday that Brussels may open an infringement procedure against Italy for excessive deficit. "If the (forecasted)…
Italy’s governor of the Central Bank warns political class against making EU its enemy
The governor of the Bank of Italy, Ignazio Visco warned Italy's political class not to make the European Commission its enemy. "We…
Possible elections in Spain as parliament rejects Budget Updated
Spain's parliament on Wednesday rejected the government's 2019 budget proposal in Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez's first major legislative defeat. Citing government and…