Italy must find ways to avoid NRRP delays - Sinkevicius

(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 31 - European Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevicius said Friday that Italy must find the necessary mechanisms and resources to implement its National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP or PNRR in Italian) and avoid missing out on EU cash.
    The post-COVID programme seeks to make the Italian economy Greener and more modern with the help of almost 200 billion euros in EU grants and low-interest loans dependent on Rome hitting a long series of reform targets.
    The Commission has delayed by a month a decision on the payment of a third tranche of funding of 19 billion euros while it runs further checks on Italy's progress.
    "The NRRP wasn't imposed from above on Italy by the European Commission," Sinkevicius said as he visited Italian architect Stefano Boeri's Vertical Forest complex in Milan.
    "It's an Italian plan and the implementation must be Italian too.
    "I really hope that the government can find the resources, above all the human resources, to make it possible to implement the plan in the scheduled time-frame". (ANSA).