European Environment Commissioner
Virginijus Sinkevicius said Friday that Italy must find the
necessary mechanisms and resources to implement its National
Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP or PNRR in Italian) and avoid
missing out on EU cash.
The post-COVID programme seeks to make the Italian economy
Greener and more modern with the help of almost 200 billion
euros in EU grants and low-interest loans dependent on Rome
hitting a long series of reform targets.
The Commission has delayed by a month a decision on the payment
of a third tranche of funding of 19 billion euros while it runs
further checks on Italy's progress.
"The NRRP wasn't imposed from above on Italy by the European
Commission," Sinkevicius said as he visited Italian architect
Stefano Boeri's Vertical Forest complex in Milan.
"It's an Italian plan and the implementation must be Italian
too.
"I really hope that the government can find the resources, above
all the human resources, to make it possible to implement the
plan in the scheduled time-frame".
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