The 2018 budget bill is
"compact and effective", Economy Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said
Friday, answering a question on whether he feared the
examination of parliament.
"I'm confident in parliament," he said.
The minister said the budget bill would be before cabinet on
Monday, the deadline for sending it off for a preliminary
examination by Brussels.
Padoan also said it was in Italy's interests to have an
"orderly and swift" drop in non-performing loans (NPLs).
He also said that Italian banks were an "ever less evident
problem" and that "in my international talks we don't discuss
them anymore".
He added that taxes were coming down and youth unemployment
was a government priority.
Padoan was speaking at a meeting of the International
Monetary Fund (IMF).
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