Rome auditors on Friday said the
city's accounts showed a "precarious financial balance, to be
kept under control and to be verified" in further assessments of
the 2017-2019 budget. The head of auditors' body OREF, Federica
Tiezzi said "it's true that the balance sheet presents an
equilibrium but, unless the council gets active, the existing
potential risks could still place the body at risk". OREF
rejected the city budget in December. Explaining why the
auditors had reversed their opinion and now approved the budget,
Tiezzi said there had been "substantive" changes. She said
"while our judgment is favourable because the budget is
balanced, compared to the previous one, there remain a whole set
of critical issues that can be seen in our reservations". Rome
Mayor Virginia Raggi's potential spending is crimped by a
historic debt widely reported as 13 billion euros.
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