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Isidoro Patalano

Italy wants to pull back on EU defence loan scheme to tackle rising energy costs

Giorgia Meloni's government is changing course on military spending and has decided to send a clear message to Brussels.

Italy had reserved 14.9 billion euros under the EU's "SAFE" defence loan scheme, but Rome now intends to use between just four and five billion - just enough to cover projects for which contracts have already been signed.

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