Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti said Wednesday that EU member states should be able to use the safeguard clause for more flexibility in the application of the bloc's budget rules in relation to the energy shock triggered by the Iran war.     "What I maintain, and reiterate here, is that it is very difficult to support a safeguard clause that provides for the possibility of excluding defence spending from the scope of the (Stability and Growth) Pact, while excluding energy interventions for