Proud of work on NRRP, Italy to spend all funds – Meloni – English

(ANSA) – ROME, NOV 24 – Premier Giorgia Meloni said she was
“very proud” of the work done on the revision of Italy’s
National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) after the European
Commission signed it off on Friday.

   
“Today we have confirmation that we have done a job, of which
the government can be very proud,” said Meloni during a meeting
at Palazzo Chigi on the budget law.

   
“We have done what we promised, we have gone into detail, we
have checked the critical points and we have overcome them, we
have made sure that all the money from the NRRP was spent on
time, and therefore we have concentrated the resources on the
growth and modernisation of the nation, and it seems to me that
the result, on which few people were betting, says that it was
not a bad choice,” she added.

   
The government is making available “another 21 billion euro” for
Italian “economic growth”, in practice “a second budget'”,
continued Meloni, telling employers’ associations that many of
the measures aimed at growth, infrastructure, and support for
production “have been set out in the revised NRRP” and not in
the budget law.

   
These addition available resources are “the result of the
reshaping of the plan with a view to improving efficiency”, she
added.

   
The government has come under fire from the business community
for giving little space in its 2024 budget for investment and
growth.

   
Meloni also reportedly said a number of “unfeasible or
ineligible” projects have been modified and some projects of
local authorities in particular, which risked not being
completed on time, will be financed through the other European
and domestic programmes instead of through the NRRP, which has
“much more stringent” timelines, with a final deadline of 2026.

   
(ANSA).