Budget will keep accounts in order-Conte

(ANSA) - Rome, October 1 - Premier Giuseppe Conte said Monday that his government's budget plans will foster growth while keeping the State accounts in order after it announced last week it intends to let the deficit-to-GDP ratio rise to 2.4% last week. "We have laid down the foundation for a serious, courageous budget, which looks towards growth within a framework of stability in the public accounts," Conte said on Facebook. "(It is) a budget that aims to offer responses to widespread poverty, to pensioners, to families, to savers harmed by the bank crises, which does not take one euro away from social services or health. "A budget that starts to lower taxes and sets its sights on the biggest investment plan in the history of the Italian republic.
    "A budget that will be a turning point for the revival of the country and for social development".