EC will grant Pact flexibility for energy investments says Dombrovskis

(ANSA) - BRUSSELS, JUN 3 - European Commission Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis said Wednesday that the EU executive has agreed to Italy's request to expand the scope of the safeguard clause in the Stability and Growth Pact that is already in place for defence to energy. But he also stressed that it will only be possible to use this flexibility in the budget rules for investments and not for other measures aimed at softening the blow of the energy-price shock triggered by the Iran war, such ...

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