By the end of June the government will ask Brussels to unblock the sixth installment of the Pnrr. It’s about 8.5 billion aimed at centering 37 objectives. The executive expects to collect the money for the project very quickly fifth installment of the Pnrr relating to the 52 objectives that were to be completed by the second half of 2023.
Pnrr, government ready to ask for the sixth instalment
The sixth installment will be functional to a series of measures and infrastructures, such as the Adriatic Line for the gastax credits for Transition 4.0 And 5.0the gyms for them schoolsthe start of infrastructure works in the single SEZ, the reclamation of illegal landfillsthe urban reforestation and the strengthening of Southern Railways, in many sections still single track as in the 19th century. And then there is still the strengthening of theorganic in the law courtsthe establishment of Digital tourism hub and the digitalisation of the activities of the Financial Police, among other things.
“It’s a very important moment. We are there first nation in Europe a request the payment of the sixth installment, after having also been the first to request the fifth”, declared Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni after the control room on the Pnrr. Present Raffaele Fitto, responsible for the Pnrr, with other ministers plus representatives of the Regions and local authorities. But the prime minister also claimed another record: “Italy is in first place for objectives achieved and financial progress of the Plan”. “We arrive at this appointment – she concluded – after complex and very demanding work, especially in the last few days”.
Fitto echoes this, again with regard to financial progress, pointing out that “the data on the significant increase in investments in public works which in the South recorded a growth rate of over 50% during 2023 confirm that we have fully entered phase 2 of the Pnrr, that of the concrete grounding of investments to give shape to the Italy of tomorrow”.
Before the summer holidays, the government will send the dossier to the Chambers with the updated numbers on the actual expenditure of the Pnrr resources.
New control system
Fitto then announced a new system of checks on the progress of projects by individual implementing bodies, as provided for in article 2 of the Pnrr quater decree (19/2024). The administrations will be obliged to update And certify respect for deadlines so as not to end up in the “blacklist”.
What future for Fitto
The government accelerates on the Pnrr in view of the appointments for the new EU Commission. According to a backstory by Milan Financeat the center of the negotiations between Rome and Brussels would be the figure of Raffaele Fitto, who could move to the Belgian capital as vice-president of the Commission.
The complementary national plan
And another mechanism of the Pnrr decree will soon start, the first periodic verification of the progress of the Pnc (Complementary National Plan), the plan parallel to the Pnrr which, with national resources, provides for a series of interventions to be completed by 2026 for a total expenditure of 30.6 billion euros.
