plan remodeled in 3 months. Too many ministries resist – Corriere.it

At the end of the conference organized by Civita, the association of which Gianni Letta president for the past ten years, the former alter egos of Silvio Berlusconi and Raffaele Fitto are secluded on the terraces of the Generali building. The magnificent view, and so are the appreciations that Letta addressed during the debate to the minister who is responsible for the Pnrr and the Cohesion Funds: I’m sure he’ll make ithas the skills, courage and the right pace to carry out such a demanding task. Letta and Fitto have known each other for years, since the young Apulian minister was one of Berlusconi’s pupils. Together they recall a case of fruitful cooperation, at the end of the last government of the Cavaliere, when they managed to get them to arrive 100 million euros from Brussels (precisely with the Cohesion Funds) to improve the fortunes of ruins of Pompeiiwhich for too many years had been experiencing a degradation that appeared to be irreversible.

Today everything changed. Or rather, everything still has to change, and the minister explains it first from the stage of the conference and then confronting himself with Gianni Letta. There is an overall remodeling problem of the Plan: Because we don’t have to spend one billion euroslike Lithuania, and because of the last cohesion funds we have managed to invest only 34%.

How long will the work of edit of the various projects of the Plan that Fitto is coordinating together with new governance structures of the Pnrr? while it is true that Brussels would like everything by the end of April, but equally true, as Giorgia Meloni said, that we don’t have the anxiety of the first in the class and that there is no time rule other than that of the end of August, and so Fitto does understand that more or less 90 daysbefore the end of the summer, will be the time necessary for Italy to present itself before the Commission with a Plan revised for the last timedefinitive, without the risk of not grounding and testing the projects by mid-2016.

But there is an aspect of this work that Fitto shares only in a whisper with his old undersecretary to the Prime Minister and I am the resistance of the ministries: not everyone realizes that changing some projects, or having to give them up, is necessary in everyone’s interest, vice versa we continue to be sitting on a barrel that threatens to explode at the scheduled deadline…..

In short the picture that outlined from the stage of the conference and also from the Prime Minister in recent days. Summarizes Fitto: We are aggregating and concentrating resources, which has never been done before. We are penultimate in Europe for capacity of expenditure of the Cohesion fundsnow we are first, those who will have to spend more than the others without wasting even 1%. a challenge and a very strong correction.

The changes we are facing are therefore necessary and it is right that everyone cooperates with an institutional spirit, without controversy. For many projects there is the certainty that we will not be able to achieve them and test them in mid-2026, what we’re doing today is a serious operation. We will move some programs to 2029, by 2026 we will leave those who have the capacity for rapid realization. a complex job – concludes Fitto – which needs a time out, as with all great challenges.