2023 was the year when Giorgia Meloni he says he has developed maximum commitment to the implementation of the Pnrr. It was, however, the year in which Italy spent much less than it received. Out of 101,9 billion in funds, 45,65 were spent: less than half. Despite this data having been provided by your Minister Raffaele Fitto, the prime minister continues to declare herself proud of the work done.
The resources received amounting to 60 billion are loans, 41 are non-repayable loans and another 92 billion are yet to arrive. A final game that the government will be able to play to the end? Our country – Fitto claimed at the last meeting of the control room – is the one that has obtained the greatest number of results within the Pnrr.
La espis a low? ” I am convinced that the expense will have further decelerations” for the project review phase and because the majority of approved projects are under construction. In short, no push on the horizon. It is a contrasting picture about which Parliament knows little. The Democratic Party asked for the president's intervention Ignazio La Russa to urge Fitto to update the Senate on the state of the art.
A phantom decree as a "patch" to criticism
A patch to many critical issues would be a decree law - announced several times - to simplify the procedures. It is difficult to keep up with the decrees, even more so when the results are disappointing. There is no doubt that the delays will have repercussions on leading sectors of the economy. If businesses and families have not been simply fascinated by the Pnrr, Italy will have to change its skin. Mission 2 of the “Green Revolution and Ecological Transition” Plan goes a long way litmus paper for territorial rebalancing processes and economies of scale.
Businesses hope to lower costs for infrastructure such as waste treatment by focusing on recycling. A country poor in raw materials either takes these paths or will increasingly take materials from abroad. “The PNRR for waste was created to close territorial gaps, but so far there has been no national strategy - states the Ref Research Laboratory in a note. Plants are financed in regions with a surplus of management capacity, while no proposal has been financed in regions with a strong deficit. The need for a clarifying intervention emerges to quantify the treatment needs to be satisfied, for the waste with disposal difficulties and for those with the possibility of recovery. “Without these answers, many initiatives are destined to remain on paper,” he says Donato Berardi, director of REF Ricerche.
The North wins over the South
More generally, the concentration of investments in a few regions, mainly in the Centre-North, calls into question the consistency between allocations and real needs in waste management. Waste is a resource that has made the fortune of businesses and investors in Europe. The center-right has been criticized for an excess of statism and also for the part of the Green Revolution the Plan is entrusted to public entities. This is not a bad idea, there is evidence with the "residual role of private initiatives" claims Ref Ricerche.
The investment in circular economy "flagship projects" has long been advertised by the Minister of the Environment. With the Draghi government we were close to a turning point in the ancient southern vision. The policies of extraordinary intervention for innovation, correct use of funds, creation of wealth are dead and buried.
But can half of Italy be managed with the rigmarole of the Strait Bridge and the single SEZ as a stimulus to development? The "Lighthouse Projects" divided into four strategic chains will accentuate the North – South duality. In fact, the South has fewer funds than the North, differentiated autonomy aside.
