At least “20 billion are needed. I myself, for the Ministry of Infrastructure, would need at least 6 or 7 billion just to compensate for the price increases compared to the contracts I have awarded. In September, I risk the halt of several large construction sites.” The words spoken by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Transport Matteo Salvini on the sidelines of the Rimini Meeting brought back to the center of public debate the government’s intention to resort to a budget deviation. According to Salvini, in fact, in view of the next maneuver, “a budget deviation will also have to be put on the table. I intend to propose it in the coming days.” The minister also specified that “approval from Brussels is not required,” but rather “a national choice.”
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The budget deviation: what it is about
The budget deviation allows the possibility to temporarily deviate from the programmed public finance targets by resorting to greater borrowing. By adopting this measure, which is used in times of particular necessity, an increase in the public deficit compared to what is foreseen in the approved budget is effectively authorized.
The deviation therefore frees up space for economic policy measures using the deficit lever and, precisely because it involves an increase in debt and often a departure from the medium-term return targets set by the EU Stability Pact, parliamentary authorization is required to resort to it.
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The government’s plan
The Minister of Economy Giancarlo Giorgetti, at the beginning of August 2026, during communications to the Chamber on the start of the procedure for activating the national safeguard clause (Nec), announced that the European Commission will evaluate “by the end of September” the request to activate the Nec, “possibly recommending its approval to the Council which should formalize the recommendation at the Ecofin meeting in October. Following this recommendation, the procedure will be initiated,” which will then lead to the budget deviation.
The minister then explained that the measure to be proposed to Parliament “in September-October will be defined in precise terms, both quantitatively and in terms of timing, because much intersects with the exit from the deficit procedure, which will only be defined towards the end of September.”
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