MILAN: Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is tightening the budgetary screws to show that Rome can balance its books, even if it means delaying electoral promises.

By the government's own admission, the room for maneuvring is extremely limited due to lower tax receipts from a slowing economy that risks deficit forecasts being revised upwards.

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