• Istat revised down the 2018 growth to + 0.8%. The estimated deficit-GDP worsens to 2.2%
  • Boccia: first of all, do not ask for more deficits in Europe but an infrastructure plan
  • Tria: "The forecast of growth in the DEF is still valid, but there are still downside risks"
  • Salvini to the social partners: "Define the maneuver for August". Conte: "Incorrect institutional"

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September 25, 2019Report of Government at Palazzo Chigi on the update note to the DEF that the Council of Ministers will have to approve in the coming days. President Giuseppe Conte, who had just returned from New York, where he took part in the UN General Assembly, convened a meeting that began a little while ago. The head of the PD delegation, Dario Franceschini and the Undersecretary for the Presidency of the Council, Riccardo Fraccaro, were also summoned together with the Economy Minister, Roberto Gualtieri. With them also the deputy ministers of the Mef, Laura Castelli and Antonio Misiani.

The approval slips
The Government should have approved the Def Update Update by Friday, but it is very likely that it will be postponed until next Monday. The government takes a little more time, therefore, for the approval of the Update to the Def, compared to the deadline of September 27th. A non-peremptory term whose postponement would give the yellow-red executive the opportunity to best design the public finance framework for the maneuver. The Ministry of Economy machine has been working for days with the aim of respecting the Friday date set by the Italian legal system. However, according to what has been learned, it would by now certainly be a postponement directly to after the weekend. The hypothesis of acceleration to tomorrow, instead, leaked at first seems definitively set. Tomorrow on the table of the Council of Ministers convened for 16.30 there will be delegations to the ministers without portfolio. Furthermore, the MEF will be busy tomorrow with the celebrations for the Patron Saint of the Guardia di Finanza with a concert at 7.30 pm, in the presence of the President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella and the Economy Minister, Roberto Gualtieri.

The Chamber of the House will vote on the Update note on the economy and finance document on 10 October. The meeting was convened at 9.30. This was established by the conference of the Montecitorio group leaders.