Dragons Threatens to blow up the PNRR. Ah, sorry …

So we arrived at the final threat, expressed through the megaphones of the Great Journalists : if you do not obey, if you do not definitively transform Parliament into a docile obedient dog, then I will step on my feet and sabotage also the PNRR, the Plan linked to the Recovery Fund and that we have touted as the savior of Italy. I break your toy and make you reduce it. Italy will be a Mini – equipped with PNRR.

A few quick thoughts come to mind that I would like to share with you:

• the PNRR is not free money, but it is debts or money paid in any case by our European taxes (carbon taxes, duties, etc.). It is money that CANNOT be invested in activities that we consider useful, but to pay for investments that Brussels deems useful, with our money;
• the PNRR does not make us net recipients of EU funds . We are still net payers. We paid 18.2 billion to the EU and received 11.66 billion. We paid 6.54 billion euros more in 2020. Well, this is our money that went to Europe;
• is there any of you who have had an advantage from PNRR? What can he say that he has seen a reduced bill, or that he has seen an improved service? We exclude that handful of consultants who live from PNRR and who are predominantly political.

So to the Italian, what does it matter if the PNRR is "Reduced"? Anything. It may be of interest to a handful of bureaucrats who manage this money for interests all to be defined, but the common citizen has nothing in his pocket. In fact, something is much more likely to go away.

So, dear Prime Minister, and dear Marcello Sorgi, the threat of the PNRR is fine if addressed to a journalist or a man of power. Italians don't care. If Draghi really cares about these last months of government, why doesn't he threaten the deputies about the only thing that keeps them in parliament, the accrual of retirement? Here, that would be an effective threat.

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The article Draghi threatens to blow up the PNRR. Ah, sorry… it comes from ScenariEconomici.it .

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This is a machine translation of a post published on Scenari Economici at the URL https://scenarieconomici.it/draghi-minaccia-di-far-saltare-il-pnrr-ah-spiaze/ on Fri, 18 Feb 2022 11:30:21 +0000.