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Italy Approves an Austerity Package which Punts Hard Choices into Future
“They put off until later difficult decisions to make,” said Francesco Daveri, an economist at the University of Parma. “But correcting pensions in 2020, in politics that’s like saying who knows when that’ll happen.”
Some analysts said that the government, reeling from recent losses in local elections and referendums, had little political freedom to propose bold, but unpopular measures.
But others said that by putting off the bulk of the austerity measures, the government’s actions were less credible. “This is not the right signal,” said Tito Michele Boeri, a professor of economics at Bocconi University in Milan.
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