Draghi and Franco will correct the Pnrr of Conte and Gualtieri mistreated by Gentiloni
Brussels' criticism of the Conte 2 government's PNRR. Gentiloni's role. Draghi's announcements in Parliament. Facts and comments in italics by Michele Arnese, Start director
We need to deepen and complete the Recovery and Resilience Program (NRP).
We will have to strengthen the Program first of all with regard to the strategic objectives and the reforms that accompany them.
The missions of the Program can be remodeled and re-merged.
This is what Prime Minister Mario Draghi said today in the Senate in his keynote speech .
Beyond the institutional framework (of respect and consideration for the work of the previous executive) in which these words were inserted, the substance is clear: the Recovery Plan developed by the Conte 2 government was insufficient.
Arbitrary interpretation?
So let's hear what he said yesterday on the PNRR signed primarily by former Prime Minister Conte and former Minister of Economy, Roberto Gualtieri (Pd), Marco Buti, head of cabinet of the EU Commissioner for Economy Paolo Gentiloni.
"The Italian government must get its hands back on the plan that has been presented, both on the granularity of the projects, and on the reforms that go together with investment projects, and on governance where the national plan was still largely unfinished", he said bluntly of words Buti.
The head of the cabinet of the EU Commissioner for the Economy explained that the plan prepared by the executive Conte "was unfinished". The new government – he added – "must get its hands back on the granularity of the projects, on the reforms that go together with investment projects and on governance".
But who will now have a passion for the Recovery Plan?
“The governance of the Recovery and Resilience Program is embedded in the Ministry of Economy and Finance,” said Draghi in the Senate.
For the director of Domani , a significant change with respect to the approach of the Conte 2 government.
Governance of recovery and resilience based on the Ministry of Economy and Finance: real discontinuity with respect to the Conte government which kept everything in Palazzo Chigi, involving only marginally the @MEF_GOV
– Stefano Feltri (@StefanoFeltri) February 17, 2021
Given Draghi's approach to the PNRR illustrated today in the Senate and given yesterday's words from Gentiloni's head of cabinet in Brussels, it will not have been a coincidence that the trio that held the point of Recovery in Count 2 was kindly put door: the Prime Minister, the Minister of Economy and the holder of the Department of European Policies, Enzo Amendola (Pd).
In fact, the premier has changed, the owner of the Treasury is no longer the same ( Daniele Franco , general manager of the Bank of Italy, has taken the place of Gualtieri) and the Ministry of European Policies has disappeared.
In this context, the public alarms – with lots of wishes and suggestions – that Commissioner Gentiloni expressed to Repubblica on 18 January last can be understood even more: "The Recovery Plan must be strengthened with objectives and reforms".
Not only that: "The Italian plan is largely convergent with our general objectives and policies, but it must be discussed and strengthened from the point of view of reforms, EU recommendations, details on the timetable and the objectives we want to achieve", added the commissioner EU to the economy.
Evidently, wishes and suggestions have remained a dead letter.
But not to the Quirinale which, with the pulping of the yellow-red majority at the hands of Matteo Renzi, torpedoed the Conte-ter hypothesis and entrusted Draghi with the fundamental dossier for Europe and Italy: the Recovery Program and resilience (Pnrr).
Il Domani di Feltri reveals the failure of Conte and Gualtieri on the Recovery Plan
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This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/economia/draghi-franco-conte-gualtieri-gentiloni/ on Wed, 17 Feb 2021 12:30:40 +0000.