Italy will stand by its budget despite EU rejection (Salvini) Italy's far-right Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini insists that Italy will stand by its budget despite a rejection by the European Commission. "We won't remove a single euro from this budget", he says at a press conference in Bucharest. It is the first time that the EU executive has ever sent a member state back to the drawing board over spending plans. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES