Energy hikes may top NRRP next year says Cingolani

(ANSA) - ROME, FEB 7 - Italian energy price hikes may top the almost 200 billion euros of the EU-funded post-COVID National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) next year, Ecological Transition Minister Roberto Cingolani said Monday.
    "The increase in the cost of energy risks having a total cost next year above that of the entire package of the NRRP," the minister said at the third stage in Genoa of the travelling event "Tomorrow's Italy: Dialogues On the National Recovery and Resilience Plan".
    "So the NRRP hasn't protected us from everything," Cingolani said.
    Energy hikes are hitting Italy as hard as other countries in Europe and around the world. (ANSA).