Not enacting Italy's commitments
under the massive EU-funded post-COVID National Recovery and
Resilience Plan (NRRP) would be a problem, European Economic
Affairs Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said in reply to a jibe
from Economy Minister Giancarlo Giorgetti who said some of the
NRRP training schemes smacked of Soviet-era planning.
"That the NRRP is made up of Soviet interventions seems to me a
joke; after all I know Minister Giorgetti and his jokes wel,"
said Gentiloni at a press conference at the annual high-profile
Rimini meeting of influential lay Catholic activist group
Communion and Liberation (CL), where Giorgetti had made his
Soviet plan quip earlier in the day.
"It's a very important thing for Italy, it's 190 billion
Eurobonds: near here there is the Rubicon, there was the
crossing of the Rubicon by the European Union on the issue of
Eurobonds and you know that Italy is the main beneficiary.
"Of course, if we were unable to spend this money, to implement
these investments, then there would be a problem of bureaucracy,
but on our part, not on the part of those who imagined the
projects, i.e. the Italian governments and those who authorised
them, i.e. the European Commission".
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