About 92% of PNRR projects Italian to 31 December 2024 was activated, in the activation or closing phase, with an expenditure certified for 63.9 billion euros, equal to over 52% of the resources received so far. The sixth report on the state of implementation of the plan, approved by the Pnrr control room of Palazzo Chigi, attests it. Next week the text will be sent to Parliament.
At the same time, the Court of Auditors highlights that “the achievement of the qualitative and quantitative objectives, established at national level and agreed at European level, is in line with the forecasts”, while “some critical issues that require constant attention and targeted interventions, especially in view of the expiry of the plan set in June 2026” remain.
Government satisfaction
The report claims the premier Giorgia Meloni“confirms Italy’s European primacy in its realization, for the number of objectives achieved, for total resources received and for the number of formalized and collected payment requests”. Then he adds: “We still have a lot of work to do, but the results achieved so far make us proud and spur us to do better”.
While the EU Affairs Minister Tommaso Foti He underlines: “Italy will confirm the European primacy in the advancement of the plan, with 140 billion euros received, corresponding to 72% of the overall endowment and, in terms of performance, with 337 objectives achieved, equal to 54% of the scheduled total objectives”. Then he announces that “over 1 billion and 300 million euros were allocated for the redevelopment of public housing, for the benefit of vulnerable and low income families”.
The reply of the oppositions
The oppositions are different. “Pnrr is an extraordinary opportunity for the future for Italy and hurts to see how the incompetence of Giorgia Meloni’s government is wasting it, as confirmed by the report of the Court of Auditors”, the secretary of the Democratic Party Elly Schlein. Which underlines: “Delays and greater critical issues are right where the PNRR serves more: welfare, public health, education”.
Angelo Bonelli, Co-Portevoce of Europe Verde and AVS deputy, notes: “Over 1000 projects are still blocked to the feasibility planning phase, with the real risk that contracts are not awarded by June 2025 and that the works are not completed by 2026”. Press rumors today speak of the hypothesis that the government can ask the EU to postpone the expiry of the plan to be able to spend most of the resources available for one year.
A year and a half from the expiry of the plan launched for the economic restart of Europe after the hardest phase of the Covid pandemicItaly awaits the payment of the seventh installment and then focus on the last three. Pd parliamentarians, however, report that, during a meeting in Rome with the members of the Senate Budget Commission, the EU Commissioner Piotr Serafin He specified that “a one -year extension of the PNRR is not possible”.
The next steps
The government works to accelerate spending on some items. To ensure the resources necessary for the completion of the ‘Nursery school and kindergarten‘The Ministry of Education and merit will issue “a new call for the selection of planning” which serve to achieve the final goal and “to the sliding of the rankings still available”.
The rule authorizes “the use of resources up to a maximum amount of 819,69.113 euros”, specifies the technical report, through “the intention of a new call for the selection of the planning relating to the nursery schools necessary for the achievement of the final objective of the measure” and “the sliding of the rankings still available at the outcome of the procedure started” with the Legislative Decree of 15 September 2023. The text still resid 37 interventions for a total amount of 32,122,250 euros.