Giorgetti presents updated SBP, spending +1.3% in 2025

(ANSA) - ROME, SEP 27 - Economy minister Giancarlo Giorgetti on Friday illustrated during a cabinet meeting the mid-term Structural Budget Plan adopted, with updated figures, the finance ministry said In detail, the ministry said that the growth rate of net primary expenditure forecast, which over the next seven years will have an average trajectory close to 1.5% will be: 1. 3% in 2025; 1.6% in 2026; 1.9% in 2027; 1.7% in 2028; 1.5% in 2029; 1.1% in 2030 and 1.2% in 2031.
    With a GDP estimate of 3.8% this year - below the 4.3% forecast last April - the government intends to bring the deficit-to-GDP ratio to 3.3% in 2025 and 2.8% in 2026, which would enable Italy to exit an excessive deficit procedure, the economy ministry said after the meeting.
    The ministry sources also said that, after ISTAT reviewed GDP estimates and considering the figures released by the Bank of Italy on debt, the debt-to-GDP ratio at the end of 2023 went down to 134.8% compared to the previously estimated 137.3%.
    Moreover, "as already noted" in April's DEF economic blueprint, "the trend over the next years, especially over the 2024-2026 period, will continue to be strongly influenced by the impact" of the Superbonus programme, introduced by a previous government headed by M5S leader Giuseppe Conte in 2020, which covered 110% of the cost of certain renovations, the ministry said.
    The debt-to-GDP ration is thus only expected to decline in 2017, in line with new European budgetary rules under which countries with excessive debts will be required to reduce it on average by 1% per year after they exit excessive deficit procedures.
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