Meeting with Fitto on synergies came to nothing - De Luca

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 29 - Campania Governor Vincenzo De Luca, one of eight regional administrators to meet with European Affairs Minister Raffaele Fitto on Monday to try to "optimize possible synergies" between the 2014-2020 and 2021-2027 European Union (EU) cohesion policy programming cycles and the EU-funded post-Covid National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP), said on social media the meeting had come to "nothing".
    Fitto also met with the governors of Basilicata, Lazio, Emilia Romagna, Piemonte, Abruzzo, Lombardy and Tuscany.
    Emilia Romagna Governor Stefano Bonaccini made a more positive assessment of the meeting.
    "The meeting went very well, the minister confirmed his willingness to reach an agreement with the regions on (European Union regional) development and cohesion funds as soon as possible," said Bonaccini, who is overseeing a massive relief operation in the northeastern region after flooding and landslides sparked by heavy rainfall the week before last left 15 people dead and caused billions of euros of damage to infrastructure and crops.
    "For us it would mean hundreds of millions of euros for the region," he continued, adding that most would be used to shore up the territory against hydrogeological instability and for reconstruction and urban regeneration.
    In a statement issued Monday Fitto said the ministry and the regions would work together to "correct the errors of the past and focus on the strategic interventions that might enable Italy to align itself to the level it deserves and that Europe requires of us". (ANSA).