MILAN: Italy is now in a position to ask the European Union to ease up on the country’s deficit target, according to Pier Carlo Padoan, chief economist at the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
With budget cuts blamed for a second straight year of recession in the euro zone, the EU’s top economics official Olli Rehn indicated last weekend that more flexibility on tough economic targets was needed.
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