In Ilfoglio.it, economist Nicola Rossi analyses Italy’s push for greater fiscal flexibility within the EU’s economic governance framework. The article discusses the Italian government’s request for more budgetary room in the context of the ongoing Multiannual Financial Framework negotiations, warning that this comes at an inopportune moment amid rising interest rates and global macroeconomic imbalances, and stresses the need for any additional flexibility to remain strictly temporary and paired with a clear path back to fiscal discipline.