Italy’s budget turmoil reaches climax

Finance minister threatens to resign as populist party’s pledge to ‘end poverty’ brings them into conflict with EU

Italy's finance minister Giovanni Tria
Italian Finance Minister Giovanni Tria is taking a defiant stance
(Image credit: Riccardo Pareggiani/AFP/Getty Images)

Italy’s new government has faced down its first major crisis, after an internal battle to increase public spending led the country’s finance minister to the brink of resigning.

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