(Finance) – “They are days and weeks in which the war in Ukraineits repercussions on the humanitarian level, in Italy and in Europe are at the center of everyone’s attention, but this does not mean that we must lose sight of the other internal challenges that we are called to face, such as the reforms we face, above all to Italy is about carrying out the investments and reforms envisaged by the PNRR“. Thus the European Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs, Paolo Gentiloniin a video message sent to the Naples Maritime Station where the first exhibition forum of confiscated assets takes place.
“Among other things, the PNRR is making 300 million euros available for the enhancement of the confiscated assets at the organized crime, within the mission dedicated to special interventions for territorial cohesion. To these resources are added those foreseen in the coming years, – Gentiloni recalled – other European structural funds, the European fund for regional development and the European social fund which in the past have already co-financed this type of initiative. If we compare this figure with the 56 million euros that the 2014-2020 national legality operational program allocated to the recovery of confiscated assets, we have a measure of the qualitative leap that Italy can make in this field, thanks to much more conspicuous funds put into field from the Pnrr “.
For Gentiloni it is therefore important to “give concrete implementation to the agreed measures and demonstrate that they are able to spend these resources well and on schedule and I know how much this is not easy. To achieve this challenge, the administrative machinery must make a qualitative leap “.