Can Italy's budget promises meet key industry needs?
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
A marginal improvement in quarterly and year-to-date levels of debt to Italian medical technology suppliers will do nothing to assuage fears that the financial recovery pacts signed last year by the most hard-up regions cannot resolve a situation that is becoming critical. Now, with those agreements reconfigured, all eyes are on the Finanziaria 2008 budgetary law that will support them, and which has just gone to the Senate for debate.