EU Commission green light for fifth instalment of NRP. Meloni: refuted those who pointed to our failure
The EU Commission approves the payment of the fifth instalment of the Italian NRP, debunking the government's predictions of failure
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The EU Commission gives a preliminary positive assessment to the payment of the fifth instalment of Italy's NRP. The request in December was on 52 targets for EUR 10.6 billion (net of pre-financing for EUR 1.6 billion). The amount of the instalment rose to 11.1 billion (3.2 grants and 7.9 loans) for 54 targets with the advance of two sixth instalment targets, according to information. The EU executive said it could not assess the achievement of a 110 million target for methodological reasons. The payments approved in the Italian NRP now rise to 113.5 billion out of 194.4 billion.
Meloni: Pnrr refutes those who pointed to our failure
"I am very happy to announce that the European Commission today approved the payment of the fifth instalment of the Pnrr". This was stated by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni in a video message , emphasising that "it is excellent news for Italy, it is excellent news for the citizens. It is news,' she added, 'that once again disproves those who had bet on the failure of this government, those who hoped in their hearts that Italy could lose Europe's money to perhaps gain an electoral advantage, while they said so. But it did not happen like that. And with the work of these months we have shown that all those predictions were wrong. We have shown this by doing what we do best, which is to study the dossiers, work, and bring home the concrete results'.
Fitto: OK for fifth instalment fruitful cooperation EU government
"It was a complex process, the result of fruitful cooperation between the European Union and the Italian government": this is how Minister Raffaele Fitto commented on Brussels' green light at a press conference.
The results
.The fifth instalment of the Italian NRP includes 9 targets on the green transition, waste and water management.
Among other achievements, it shows that by the end of 2023 Italy has closed 22 illegal landfills (out of 34, more than 60%). It has improved the separate collection of waste by reducing the gap between the national average and the worst performing region by 9%. The five measures for sustainable mobility include, for example, 200 kilometres of completed cycle routes in metropolitan areas. Or the development of public transport infrastructure with an additional 231 kilometres. In regional transport, more than 3,000 new vehicles were purchased to expand the fleet of zero- or low-emission buses.
There were 17 milestones and targets in the digital transformation of public administration. As of 31 December 2023, a further 6,678 public administrations had adopted digital payment systems PagoPA (+71% since 2021) and added the service with the app Io 10,675 public administrations (+251% since 2021). They concerned measures to strengthen the business climate 13 milestones and targets.
