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".
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