{"id":396640,"date":"2024-10-10T13:21:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T11:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/10\/10\/pnrr-ue-promuove-italia-su-investimenti\/"},"modified":"2024-10-16T15:06:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T13:06:12","slug":"nrrp-eu-praises-italy-on-reforms-and-investments-made-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/10\/10\/nrrp-eu-praises-italy-on-reforms-and-investments-made-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"NRRP, EU praises Italy on reforms and investments made so far"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Italy and the others, it is a good start<\/strong>\u00a0but with a call to move faster. EU member states are demonstrating that they are making good use of the resources made available by the Recovery Fund and that they are already on track with the reforms promised in their respective recovery plans (NRRPs)\u00a0<\/strong>that the Recovery Fund finances. A positive overall picture that leads the European Commission to believe that the post-pandemic recovery tool “works,” with Italy cited several times as a good example in the third annual report on the status of implementation of fresh publication<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The overall assessment emerging from the report is that, so far,\u00a0Italy is using Recovery Fund money<\/strong> well, starting with the twin green and digital transition. In practice, through the NRRP, among the “relevant examples” of good implementation,<\/strong> it cites that “Italy has constructed over\u00a0 200 km of bicycle lanes in metropolitan areas and cities hosting universities, which will facilitate commuting\u00a0between universities, intermodal nodes and other points in the metropolitan areas” It also holds up the country\u00a0for having “improved the resilience of more than 172 km of railways in the southern railways, which includes rail line renewal on 6 different routes.” And having “reduced irregular landfills from 34 to 14, a 60 percent reduction, improving waste management and reducing environmental strain.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On the digitization commitment front, it cites among the “relevant examples” in terms of good implementation\u00a0that\u00a0“in Italy, three important goals related to the integration of public administrations in e-Government solutions have been achieved.” <\/span>Specifically, they say, through Recovery funds and commitments under the Italian NRRP,\u00a06.678 more public administrations have adopted the digital payment system “PagoPA”\u00a0<\/strong>(+71 percent compared to 2021),\u00a010.675<\/strong><\/span> more public administrations have joined and provided services through the one-stop shop for access to public services,<\/strong> called the “IO app” (+251 percent compared to 2021), and 1,798 central public administrations and municipalities have joined the “Digital Notification Platform” and started sending legally binding notices to citizens, legal persons, associations, and any other public or private entities through the platform.<\/span><\/p>\n

It doesn’t end there:\u00a0the EU Commission applauds investments<\/strong> for 25 companies, including small and medium-sized enterprises, <\/span>for participation in ‘major projects of common European interest’ on hydrogen technology and industry, along with investments for next-generation cloud infrastructure and services. All projects for “breakthrough innovations that contribute to Europe<\/strong>‘s competitiveness, innovation, and sustainability,”\u00a0<\/span>the EU Commission stresses in the report.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Meloni government is reaping the rewards of a work to be shared with Mario Draghi, author of the original draft of an ambitious\u00a0NRRP\u00a0and welcomed in\u00a0Brussels, where efforts on energy are now also appreciated.\u00a0Italy “is improving its domestic energy infrastructure,”<\/strong>\u00a0particularly by constructing submarine cables between Sicily and Campania. According to the EU executive, the country “is also enhancing electricity transmission inter-connectors with Austria and Slovenia to improve cross-border electricity flows,” especially for greater integration with Central Europe. All this\u00a0“will improve energy resilience and the integration of renewable energy sources.”<\/p>\n

Italy and the EU as a whole are doing a good job. Implementation and disbursements under the Recovery Fund “have accelerated after some delays in 2023,” linked “largely” to the war in Ukraine, high inflation, supply constraints, and the need to adopt the energy chapters of the REPowerEU program for energy independence. Things are progressing well, but there is still a need to accelerate. “It is\u00a0essential that member states accelerate the implementation of their recovery plans <\/strong>to reap the full benefits of this extraordinary opportunity” offered by the European Union,” said Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni<\/strong>: a general invitation, which, therefore, also concerns Italy.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the green to the digital transition and energy, many relevant examples of good behavior included in the European Commission’s third report on the recovery fund. Gentiloni: “It is crucial to accelerate implementation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":396595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[26180,29310,28061,27730,25882,27379,25883,26179,26305,25885,28966,25886,28786,26099],"class_list":{"0":"post-396640","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-business","8":"tag-digitization-en","9":"tag-double-transition-en","11":"tag-investimenti-en","12":"tag-p-a-in","13":"tag-paolo-gentiloni-en","14":"tag-pnrr-en","15":"tag-recovery-fund-en","16":"tag-riforme-en","17":"tag-shooting-en","18":"tag-sustainability-en","19":"tag-sustainable-mobility-en","20":"tag-transport-en"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396640"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":397691,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396640\/revisions\/397691"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}