There are no delays, Italy will ask for the entire fourth installment without imagining a shortage, the government’s work on European funds is “serious and constructive”. Raffaele Fitto, Minister of European Affairs, South, Cohesion Policies and PNRR responds point by point at the press conference and denies what he defines as “fake news” as the emergency meeting of the plan’s control room. “The proposal for modifying the fourth installment has just been approved by the control room”, said the minister, the fourth installment of the PNRR “had 27 objectives to be achieved, the government sent the proposed modifications to the EU Commission on the 17 April goals. The work of these months led to 10 different interventions, the ministries involved are Infrastructure, Business, Education, Culture, the President of the Council, the Cohesion department, some ministries have several measures. With this change, the government aims at a very important result. In this way, it may be subject to the fourth installment, after the formal sharing with the EU Commission of the payment request that we will send”.
In other words, the process of revising the objectives carried out by the government “will lead to the request for the entire fourth installment, not imagining a lack of funding”, asks Fitto. Regarding the controversy over alleged delays by the Government, the minister clarified: “At this moment, three countries have requested payment of the third installment, Spain, Italy and Greece, and none has requested the fourth” and “to date, no country has requested payment of the fourth portion”. Spain “is the second PNRR in Europe, it is worth 60 billion and they just asked for the debt, ours is worth 220 billion”. “The concept of delay seems questionable to me, I cannot understand what it refers to. We are going through previous situations, I would like to hear some specific argument about delay and whether there is delay, but I think that this is an exercise that does not serve the country” . is Fitto’s drive. “The work that the government has been doing is serious and constructive. We are facing several fake news because there was no emergency meeting in the control room”, comments the minister to journalists.
Source: IL Tempo
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