The International Monetary Fund
said Thursday it was confident that the new Italian government
would safeguard public accounts. "It's clearly at the start. We
have confidence that Italy will launch policies to maintain the
sustainability of public accounts," and build on past reforms,
said IMF spokesman Gerry Rice. "We have not yet had the
opportunity of meeting the new authorities.. Rice was answering
a question whether he was concerned about sustainability of
public debt and if the IMF had advice to give the new
government, which has been accused of not having financial cover
for all its planned policies.
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