I was wondering about the Situation in Italy. Since austerity has failed and the Italian debt-load is rising instead of falling, Hans-Werner Sinn has been making the talk show tour, explaining to everybody that the problem is that Italy (and others) aren't actually really cutting spending.

I looked at the numbers of the Italian budget. I fund that it got roughly cut from 76 Billon Euro to 72 Billion Euro. But I suspect the increased amount of debt service  masks the actual cut in public spending.

do you have some number of that?