Italy targets budget deficit at 3% of GDP this year

ROME (Reuters) -Italy will cut its budget deficit to 3% of national output this year, the government said on Thursday, below a previous target of 3.3% and inside the European Union’s 3% ceiling for the first time since 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.

(Reporting by Giuseppe Fonte, editing by Gavin Jones)

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