News, the umpteenth, in sight in front of the Pnrr. The tortuous path of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, approved in 2021 by Italy to relaunch its economy after the COVID-19 pandemic, with the help of large sums of money, on a non-refundable basis or in the form of EU loans, could undergo a net restructuring. Today’s Corriere della Sera tells it. The problems described by the newspaper are as follows. The first: doubts in the European Commission about Italy’s ability to achieve all the objectives of the Pnrr by 2026, to which funding in the total amount of 191.5 billion euros is linked. The second: the difficulty of transferring jobs and opening construction sites. Dulcis in fundo, the Commission’s verification methods have changed on the 55 objectives that the Plan predicted would be achieved in the second half of 2022 to obtain the third installment of 19 billion.
In fact, random inspections have started with on-site inspections to verify, for example, the opening of new housing for university students, an objective not achieved. Not only that: the Minister of European Affairs, Raffaele Fitto, declared that he should “take up to 47 measures of various types just to set the 55 objectives for the second half of 2022”. However, the most substantial novelty, as anticipated, is the following: the continuous changes that have taken place make part of the objectives outlined by the previous executive who had rewritten the plan, led by Mario Draghi, unattainable. Therefore, it will be necessary to carry out a refurbishment.
For its modification, the Government will start from a report presented in Parliament on the state of implementation of the Pnrr, in which the parts of the plan that present “weak elements” are indicated. The report identified 64 of them, of which 10 have already been submitted to the Commission for an amendment request. Fitto’s mediation will not be easy, as tables will have to be opened with all the ministers, who do not want to be held responsible for the Plan’s delays in relation to their area of competence, and that is why the intervention of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni will be fundamental.
Source: IL Tempo
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