Italy's national spending deviation adds €14 billion more this year.
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The €14 billion is a planned/requested figure for 2027 and 2028 (the flexibility request to the European Commission under the DPFP approved on 2 October 2026), not a 2026 outlay: the MEP's 'l'anno'/'this year' wording conflates the coming budget years with the current one.
The €14 billion is the defence share of a larger deviation (about €29 billion) that also covers energy measures, so presenting it purely as a 'rearmament' figure omits the energy component of the same package.
The defence quota was reportedly cut by the government from the initially floated level to 0.6% of GDP, so the figure is a ceiling of the current plan rather than an already-legislated, multi-year appropriation approved by Parliament.
No primary source (MEF DPFP document, Commission assessment or parliamentary resolution text) was retrieved; the figure rests on several Italian news outlets reporting the same cabinet decision, so the sources are not fully independent of one another.