The EU has warned eight eurozone countries that their spending plans for next year risk breaking the bloc’s spending rules.<br /><br /> They state that governments should not have deficits higher than three percent of their gross domestic product.<br /><br /> Those warned include Spain, Portugal and Italy.<br /><br /> The Italian government has said that it faced extra costs over the past year.<br /><br /> Its budget deficit is set to be 2.4 this year, far higher than the 1.8 percent Rome promised to hit by 2017.<br /><br /> The European Commission has granted extra leeway owing to a series of recent earthquakes and an unusually high flow of migrants into the country.<br /><br /> Spain and Portugal were also warned.<br /><br /> Both escaped being fined over their budget deficits in the summer, which stand at 5.1 percent and 4.4 percent respectively.<br />
