Rome [ENA] The European Commission revealed in its spring economic forecasts on 12th of may that it expects Italy's GDP to rise by 4.2% this year and by 4.4% in 2022. EU-supported investments should put the economy onto a path of "sustained expansion". The Commission made known Italy's public debt will continue to rise this year but should start coming down in 2022. ISTAT, Italian National Institute of Statistics, said Tuesday that the prospects for the Italian economy were positive for the coming months. The labour market continued to show moderate improvements in a highly uncertain framework especially concerning the phasing out timing of income support measures," the national statistics agency said in its monthly report on the economy.   [Mehr...]