NRRP training schemes 'like Soviet plans' says Giorgetti

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 23 - Some of the training schemes envisaged under the post-COVID EU-funded National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) recall Soviet-era five year plans, Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti told the high-profile annual meeting in Rimini of lay Catholic activist group Communion and Liberation (CL).
    "I could fill you with titles of plans and projects reminiscent of the five-year plans of the Soviet Union, excuse the quip", said Giorgetti on the part of the NRRP relating to training.
    Giorgetti added that "we have made an enormous effort' to extend Industry 5.0 with respect to the diktats of Brussels, and that even in the new Stability Pact, long-term thinking is not adequately valued and this forces us to make budget policy decisions that are inevitably short-lived".
    The rightwing League party heavyweight was also ironic about "mythical EU aid". (ANSA).