Italy first in EU for NRRP targets, amount says Meloni

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 5 - Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni on Monday said Italy is "in first place" in the European Union for the "number of targets reached and the overall amount received".
    "We were the first to request the payment of the fifth installment" of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) and "we are the first to have requested the sixth installment of the Plan". "Recent ISTAT data on the GDP, which estimated a growth acquired in the first semester of 2024 worth 0.7%, and the latest data in the Svimez report, which in 2023 highlighted the decided acceleration of GDP in the South, with a 2.6% increase of new jobs%, show the effective work carried out by the government and administrations tasked with reaching the planned objectives and the implementation of virtuous measures for Italy's structural economic growth", Meloni said after the payment of the fifth installment of the NRRP worth 11 billion euros. (ANSA).