BRUSSELS: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) believes Italy’s debt is a major risk to the euro zone economy, together with global trade tensions and a hard Brexit, an EU source told Reuters on Wednesday ahead of a report the IMF will present next week.
The so-called article IV report on the euro zone will be presented by IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde at a meeting of euro zone finance ministers on June 13 in Luxembourg, the source said, adding that the main issues have been already discussed with euro zone representatives this week.