Italy 'happy' to lower deficit target - Deputy PM to paper
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MILAN (Reuters) - The Italian government is "happy" to be able to lower its deficit target for next year, Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Friday in a newspaper interview.The government wanted to avoid disciplinary action with Brussels over its 2019 budget, but without betraying pledges made to Italian voters, Di Maio told Italian daily Il Fatto Quotidiano. Asked about the economic growth target of 1.5 percent set for 2019, Di Maio said, "the only reason to come down from 1.5 percent..