The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has blamed Germany, Italy and France for not adhering to the euro zone fiscal rules, because they failed to reduce their structural deficits when there was an economic boom.
The EU's Stability and Growth Pact, which underpins the euro currency, puts a deficit ceiling for countries of three percent of GDP, but it has already been breached by the EU's two largest economies - France and Germany...
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