Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her officials are waiting for credit assessors to applaud their efforts to shrink one of the world’s biggest debt mountains.
Starting with Fitch Ratings on Friday and ending with Moody’s Ratings nine weeks later, all five of the companies used by the European Central Bank to assess collateral will have the chance to update them. Three of those are already skewed positively toward upgrades for Italy and none have negative outlooks.