Giorgetti won't rule out over-3% deficit

(ANSA) - Rome, August 20 - Cabinet Secretary Giancarlo Giorgetti on Monday said he could not "rule out" the 2019 budget breaking the EU's 3% to GDP rule. Speaking on Sky TG24 on the possibility of breaching the key parameter to fund a major infrastructure maintenance and construction programme, Giorgetti said "I'm not ruling anything out".
    "Let's hope (public works) will be judged in a different way by the EU," he said.
    "It will be a difficult negotiation, but we intend to do it because we think we're in the right".