MILAN (Reuters) – The European Commission today paid Italy the fifth installment of the PNRR, equivalent to 11 billion, thus reaching a total of 113.5 billion, a note from Palazzo Chigi said.
The payment follows the positive assessment of the Commission, formally adopted on 2 July, related to the achievement of 53 goals and objectives covering 14 reforms and 22 investments in strategic sectors such as competition, public procurement, justice, governance of waste and water, education, infrastructure, health care, culture, universities and public administration, with the basis of interventions for the digital transition.
“In the coming months, with the assessment activity preparatory to the payment of the sixth phase, the government will intensify the monitoring of the implementation of the Plan (…) aimed at achieving the objectives of the seventh phase”, declared the Minister for in European Affairs and the Pnrr, Raffaele Fitto.
(Claudia Cristoferi, editing by Andrea Mandalà)