Some evaluations  The Government has said on more than one occasion that the crucial challenge of Italy’s public finances consists in simultaneously bringing down the debt ratio and reducing the fiscal burden on honest taxpayers.
To achieve these objectives it is necessary to curb primary current expenditure, which in the past few years has grown at a real rate of between 2 and 2.5 per cent a year, and to “spend better” by improving the effectiveness and efficiency of public-sector operations. Recent fiscal policy decisions do not brake the growth in expenditure.