The Italian and French governments’ fiscal plans, announced this week, suggest that the headline budget deficit will be similar in both countries over the next few years. But we suspect that the deficit in Italy will be bigger than the official target. And while we expect the public debt ratio in France to creep down, weaker growth prospects in Italy mean that the debt ratio there is likely to rise.
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