The EU was going ballistic over the Italians' budget proposal that they said would violate its austerity rules (they really didn't, but the budget was less austere than its predecessors). Now, Macron apparently will actually violate EU budget rules with his concessions: [https://www.politico.eu/article/opinion-santa-macron-blows-hole-in-budget/][https://www.politico.eu/article/how-emmanuel-macron-gave-italian-populists-a-boost/] Let's see what the EU says over this. --[[User:1990'sguy|1990'sguy]] ([[User talk:1990'sguy|talk]]) 08:54, 11 December 2018 (EST)
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The EU was going ballistic over the Italians' budget proposal that they said would violate its austerity rules (they really didn't, but the budget was less austere than its predecessors). Now, Macron apparently will actually violate EU budget rules with his concessions: [https://www.politico.eu/article/opinion-santa-macron-blows-hole-in-budget/][https://www.politico.eu/article/how-emmanuel-macron-gave-italian-populists-a-boost/][https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-protests/macrons-concessions-set-to-blow-out-french-deficit-idUSKBN1OA20M] Let's see what the EU says over this. --[[User:1990'sguy|1990'sguy]] ([[User talk:1990'sguy|talk]]) 08:54, 11 December 2018 (EST)