Pnrr, here’s your challenge: Forty Days to Reshape the 2026 Goals

a path National Recovery and Resilience Plan It looks more and more like Via Crucis. Traffic In stages, from semester to semester, from bad to bad Every time Brussels has to check compliance with the commitments made and proceed to repay the relative tranches of loans. The Way of the Cross Meloni’s government finds itself, in spite of itself, following along a course designed by others that becomes more demanding from semester to semester. Partly because of growing skepticism in the European Commission about Italy’s ability to achieve all of the Pnrr targets until 2026 to which the funding is linked. For a total of 191.5 billion euros. Partly because, objectively, the further you go, the more difficult the goals assigned to individual classes become, as it is no longer just a question of agreeing to rules and regulations as it was in the beginning, but of assigning jobs and opening construction sites. Verification methods by the European Union Commission have also changedIn his capacity as Minister for European Affairs, Rafael Veto, he experienced first-hand the 55 targets that the plan envisages achieving in the second half of 2022 for the third tranche of 19 billion.

For the first time, random checks have been carried out from Brussels with on-site inspections to check, for example, the opening of new housing for university students, With the complaint to our government that part of the same accommodations that were reported as new previously existed instead. The government has learned its lesson. I had to take up 47 metrics of various kinds just to fix 55 goals for the second half of 2022, Vito lamented. Now, after overcoming the deadlock on the third and fourth batch through a compromise with Brussels, the minister wants to avoid problems with the next batch. So let’s see where we stand. Pnrr envisions, in total, 527 targets divided into ten semesters and as many installments, through June 30, 2026 for a total of 191.5 billion. So far, in addition to paying 24.9 billion advances, Italy has received the first two installments of 21 billion each, for a total of 66.9 billion. And assuming that our country will also receive the third and fourth installments, a total loan of 101.9 billion will be reached, against the 178 targets achieved during the first half of 2023.

There will still be 349 targets to be achieved, divided into six terms, from the second of 2023 to the first of 2026, when 89.6 billion will be raised.. By August 31, but at Palazzo Chigi they say they will do so sooner, the government will present proposals to completely amend Pnrr, including including the chapter on RepowerEu, which the Commission wants to give guaranteed to energy independence in Europe after the war in Ukraine. Here, in light of the latest developments, our plan will be rewritten. Not to change the philosophy or the goals set by the EU, but to take note of all the changes that have taken place and which – as Vito has repeatedly said – make part of the goals listed by the Draghi government in Pnrr unattainable by the deadlines. The government has just asked Brussels to change about a third of the targets for the first half of 2023 (10 out of 27). Imagine if this level was maintained on the remaining 349 of Pnrr. Fitto technicians work in progress.

Possible correction proposals include investments amounting to tens of billions of euros. But the selection continues. The starting point is the government’s appendix to the report recently submitted to the House of Representatives on the state of implementation of the law, in which there is a detailed list of all the measures of the plan that so far show elements of weakness. There are 64 in total, including 10 for which changes have already been requested in Brussels, which often stipulates steps also in the coming years. Sorting will not be easy. Abandoning certain investments, perhaps diverting financing to the national resources of the supplementary fund and to the cohesion funds, which have terms longer than 2026, means facing difficult negotiations with individual ministers who own the projects, who do not want to appear responsible for the delay in the implementation of the Pnrr, especially after repeating that we will spend all the allocated resources, for example the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Mathieu.

So there are resistances to overcome and compromises to be reached. No matter how patient and skillful a mediation veto is, the prime minister is always ready to step in if necessary.. time is running out. At Palazzo Chigi they are convinced that, given the experience of the past year, from now on we must play in advance with Brussels, with the aim of not again taking 7 months to complete the checks that open the payment of the installment. For this it is necessary to rewrite Pnrr.