Gower, Donay, Morges Burris: The three women are willing to put Pnrr under the lens

From our correspondent
BRUSSELS – According to the regulation, the European Commission has two months to assess and approve State request to change the plan. Thus, this is when Brussels will have to consider Italy’s request to change 10 of the 27 targets Pnrr submitted for the fourth slide, which was originally scheduled to be completed in the first half of this year. After the green light from the authority – the process is expected to take less than two months – The council, in turn, has four weeks to make a decision. But in fact the commission Evaluate plans for Italy and other countries. On August 16, 2020, a few weeks after the green light from EU leaders for the next generation of the European Union, the Secretariat created Recovery and Resilience Task Force, Who reports directly to the President of the European Union Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. headed by Frenchman Klein Gower, Previously in the General Directorate of Competition in Energy and Environment before becoming Deputy Secretary General in 2018.

team work

The task of this structure is to direct execution Recovery and Resilience Facility (Rrf), the recovery and resilience device on which Pnrr is based and which is the main tool for the next generation of eu. The Working Group assesses progress made by Member States in implementing NRR reports and analyzes regular reports. While the issuance of bonds to finance grants and loans managed by the budget of the Directorate General led by French Stephanie Riso since the first of March, Loyal to von der Leyen, of whom she was Deputy Prime Minister until her new appointment and Senior Director of Strategy on the Brexit negotiation team with the UK. The task force is made up of technicians, about a hundred officials, and cooperates closely with the Directorate General for Economic and Financial Affairs (Dg Ecfin), which reports to the Economic Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni. At the helm of the all-powerful Dg Ecfin is Dutchman Martin Ferroy (the role occupied by Marco Botti for eleven years). It is no coincidence that a Dutchman was chosen to lead: Even if it cannot be considered a hawk, its function is also to balance the Italian toilet.

Supervision of 20 technicians

Experienced vice gower at the Italian level Belgian Marie Donaywho arrived at the Commission in 2003, where she worked at Dg Fisma (Financial Stability) and at Dg Ecfin. Below is Polish Magdalena Morges Boris, PhD in Economics with a passion for a healthy lifestyle: a complete nutrition coach with a certificate. Morges Boris comes from DG Ecfin where she dealt with Cyprus. He not only follows Italy, but also oversees the plans of Sweden, Finland and Denmark. Gower, Donai and Boris have in common that all three speak Italian.

Each country has a specialized team. Between the General Secretariat and DG Ecfin, about twenty technicians work at the Italian level. But expert input from other general managers on specific topics is often added. In Dg Ecfin the Dutch deputy Verwey who handles the Italian-Irish plan is Declan Costello: always in DG Ecfin, chief negotiator of the Greek bailout committee in 2015, member of the Brussels group (the famous troika). At that time in Athens he was forced to take a guarded tour. Instead, the head of the Italy office is Austrian Paul Kotos, formerly the head of the Greece office.