Dombrovskis: "Italy accelerates with the Pnrr, an extension is unlikely"

Dombrovskis: "Italy accelerates with the Pnrr, an extension is unlikely"

The adjectives are the same used in the document of European Recommendations to Italy released yesterday morning: the implementation of the Pnrr must be "continuous, rapid and constant", says the vice president of the Commission, Valdis Dombrovskisspeaking to Corriere della Sera. To do this, as the Brussels document also indicates, the priority is "strengthen administrative capacityespecially at the subnational level". According to the Union, these are the next steps that Italy must take to "accelerate the implementation of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans": also because, warns Dombrovskis, "the deadline of the end of 2026 is very unlikely to be extended". The impossibility of easing the terms within which the Recovery Plans must be implemented by the member states is above all bureaucratic: in fact, it would require "a unanimous decision of the member states", which would involve "in almost all cases a parliamentary procedure ", says the vice-president of the Commission. And he therefore defines it as "something very difficult".

But, if the Union remains inflexible for the 2026 limit, this does not mean that the attitude of Dombrovskis and, more generally, of the whole Commission is less conciliatory. Indeed, the dialogue with the minister who is holding the dossier, Raffaele Fitto, is constant: just in these days the dicastery of European affairs is working on drafting the formal requests for modifications, keeping in mind the fourth installment of June. "We are ready to discuss in a very constructive and flexible way, but we have to do it as soon as possible", said the EU economic affairs commissioner just yesterday, Paul Gentiloni.

Even for the floods that hit Emilia-Romagna in recent weeks, the Union shows full solidarity: not only in words, considering that the costs for the reconstruction will not be counted in the debt, as he always explained in course of yesterday Gentiloni. Today the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyenwill be visiting together with the premier Giorgia Meloni and the president of Emilia-Romagna Stefano Bonaccini in the most affected areas.While Dombrovskis recalls the European Solidarity Fund, a source of "support for Italy will request it".



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