Brothers of Italy (FdI) leader Giorgia
Meloni on Thursday denied having clashed with outgoing Premier
Mario Draghi over Italy's post-COVID National Recovery and
Resilience Plan (NRRP or PNRR).
On Wednesday Meloni, who is set to succeed Draghi after FdI led
the right coalition to victory in last month's general election,
said there were clear delays in the NRRP, which is being funded
by close to 200 billion euros of grants and low-interest loans
from the EU.
Draghi said the EU would not have approved the payments of the
tranches of funding allocated up to now if there were any
delays.
"It does not seem to me that there has been a clash," Meloni
said as she arrived at the Lower House for meetings to prepare
her government team.
"However, the government writes in the NADEF (economic
blueprint) that, by the end of the year, it will spend 21
billion of the 29.4 billion we had.
"So we say, in a constructive spirit, that we must do even
better".
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