Italy's excessive-deficit infringement procedure is set to remain after EU statistics agency Eurostat and Italian national statistics agency Istat both said the nation's deficit-to-GDP ratio came in at 3.1% in 2025.
The European Commission is set to examine the procedure in June but a figure of below 3% is needed for it to be lifted.
The government estimated that the deficit would come in at 3% of GDP in 2025 in the DPFP economic blueprint it released in October.
Eurostat and Istat both said that Italy's deficit had come down from 3.4% of GDP in 2024.
Istat said Italy's debt-to-GDP ratio rose to 137.1% last year from 134.7% in 2024.
