The International Monetary Fund said Italy should offset elsewhere in its budget any new measure, including support against higher energy prices, because of the country’s debt situation.
Mateusz Szczurek, director of the IMF’s European Department, made the remarks at a press meeting reported by ANSA on 12 November. He said Italy had reduced its deficit to 3% of GDP this year after what he described as impressive progress over the previous two years.
The development is not a prohibition on energy-price relief. It is a condition attached by the IMF to any new action: a future measure should be compensated elsewhere in the budget. ANSA did not specify what form such compensation could take, and it did not report that the Italian government had selected a measure or a funding source.
WUA’s reading is that the statement narrows the political choices around future relief. Any proposal would have to be debated alongside the budget adjustment it would require elsewhere. In the IMF official’s framing, the lower deficit does not remove the importance of Italy’s debt position.
The supplied report contains no government announcement of new energy support or funding plan. The IMF’s statement does not itself change laws or bills, but it places budget offsets at the centre of the next debate over possible Italian measures.
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- ANSA · Top news · Source date: 2026-11-12
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