WORLD ECONOMY AND TRADE TRENDS

摘要

European finance ministers are likely to turn up the heat on Italy next week for failing to cut its budget deficit fast enough, but fellow fiscal rule-breaker Germany should escape more lightly, diplomats and officials say. The new Italian government's budget plans, plus those of Germany, are up for review when euro zone ministers hold talks which will also focus on the prospect of accelerating interest rate increases by the European Central Bank.