CERNOBBIO, Italy – Italy can’t afford any delays within the implementation of its post-COVID restoration programme, the European Union’s Financial Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni mentioned, because the nation heads to the polls this month to elect a brand new authorities.
Requested if adjustments to the EU-wide restoration programme could possibly be thought-about to bear in mind the vitality disaster going through the bloc, Gentiloni mentioned vitality transition was already a core goal of the programme and solely a fine-tuning of the restoration plans international locations have agreed was doable.
“What we definitely can't afford is to cease and begin another time,” he mentioned on the sidelines of the Ambrosetti enterprise discussion board.
“For international locations receiving giant contributions corresponding to Italy or Spain the restoration plan actually is a matter of a race towards time,” he added.
Rome is entitled to some 200 billion euros ($199 billion)($205 billion) in low-cost loans and grants from the fund set as much as assist the bloc’s 27 international locations get well from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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