Renzi « defies » European Commission over 2016 budget

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi told Radio 24 on Friday that, if the European Commission rejects Italy’s draft 2016 budget, “We will submit it again unchanged…Brussels is not our teacher. We make a net contribution [to the EU budget] of €9bn every year, and [the Commission] cannot be telling us which tax is the right one to cut…Over the past years, there has been a lot of psychological subordination to eurocrats.”

Source: Radio 24