down Italy's growth estimates, up 1.3% in 2018

The European Commission has reduced its growth estimates for Italy by 201 percentage points of 0.2 percentage point, bringing them from the 1.5% reported last spring to 1.3% of recently released economic forecasts. Estimates for 2019 have also been reduced, the growth forecast for Italy rising from 1.2% to 1.1%

In the euro area the forecasts of economic growth of 2018 and 2019 they are 2 , 1% and 2% respectively. For the Commission, uncertainty over the policies that will follow the Conte government and higher yields of public debt may have a negative impact on Italy's growth prospects, which should remain the last country to grow in the euro area. in the EU: it is even worse than the United Kingdom, affected by the Brexit effect, but predicting growth of 1.3% in 2018 and 1.2% in 2019.

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