Moscovici warns Italy rules must apply

(ANSA) - Brussels, October 2 - Pierre Moscovici, who is set to become the European Economic Affairs Commissioner, on Thursday warned Italy that the EU's rules apply to everyone.
    Moscovici was responding to journalists who asked him to comment on the Italian government's announcement this week that it won't balance the budget in structural terms until 2017. In the original version of the government's economic blueprint, the Economic and Financial Document (DEF), in April the government had said the State budget would be balanced by 2016. "The rules are the same for everyone, there are no differences between the individual countries, they will all be treated in the same way," former French finance minister Moscovici said at his Commission confirmation hearing.