Contents of Moscovici's letter to Tria

  • Draft budget points to a particularly serious non-compliance with EU budget rules

  • Asks Italy to respond by Monday

  • Says budget is a 'significant deviation' from rules

  • Budget is source of serious concern

  • Asks for clarification

  • Says Italy's planned spending growth next year is 2.7%, while max allowed under rules is 0.1%

Here's what the clarification is going to say: We've been in a crisis for a decade and we let your technocrats run our government and it didn't work. Now we're going to do what we promised voters.