The denunciation in strong colors and in unequivocal numbers of the Court of Auditors and the cry of alarm from the Minister for European Affairs, Raffaele Thick, clearly suggest that in the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) that Europe is ready to feed with 190 billion euros theItaly it is not only very late but it is on the edge of the abyss. In other words, if we don't wake up, our country risks losing a good part of the rich dowry that theEuropean Union has made us available with the Next Generation Eu to amortize and overcome the troubles of Covid forward. So far, the Court of Auditors appropriately reminds us, the level of financial implementation of the PNRR is still at 6% with respect to the programmed objectives and this is enough to give an idea of the seriousness of the delays.
It's not the first time that the inefficiency of the public administration and the incapacity of politicians and administrators on duty cause the country to lose precious resources – and the whole history of European funds is there to remind us of this – but this time there's more. Not only because the dowry expected from Europe, between loans at very low rates and non-repayable grants, is even higher than what post-war Italy received from the legendary Marshall Plan, but because not being able to spend the funds of the PNRR would be proof of a resounding failure that would expose Italy to the rejection not only of the European Union but of the markets and would forever ridicule those bontemponi at the Salvini who cry out to stepmother Europe without apologizing for their own abysmal inadequacy and their own acclaimed bad faith.
PNRR: BECAUSE YOU NEED AN EXTRAORDINARY COMMISSIONER AS A SON
This is why a change is needed and it is needed immediately on the model of the virtuous experience of Draghi government who in the face of the frightening and unexpected emergency of the pandemic took the bull by the horns and entrusted full powers to a high-ranking and extraordinarily efficient general like Francesco Paolo Son appointing him Extraordinary Commissioner against Covid. Appointment very apt and crowned with success, unanimously recognized.
Against the PNRR emergency, the controversies and the blame game policy are useless: we need to decide and act as soon as possible, bypassing all the bureaucratic slowness and the inadequacy of the Public Administration in the center as in the periphery. Act and act immediately, centralizing and speeding up the decision-making processes but in transparency and without forgetting the warning launched a few days ago by the National Anti-Mafia Prosecutor, Giovanni Melillo which not surprisingly never misses an opportunity to recall that today's mafia is mainly a business mafia and that the temptation to infiltrate the projects and funds of the PNRR is always around the corner.
PNRR COMMISSIONER: THE LAW ALREADY EXISTS BUT MELONI MUST HURRY
An extraordinary Commissioner for the PNRR, therefore, on the Figliuolo model. And Il Foglio is absolutely right in proposing it clearly in today's edition. After all, as the newspaper directed by Claudio Cerasa points out, there is no need for new laws to appoint an extraordinary Commissioner for the PNRR. The law already exists and article 12 of decree 77 of May 2021 on the rules for the implementation of the PNRR explicitly states that, faced with delays by the PA, the Regions and local authorities, the Prime Minister "identifies the administration, body, body or office, or ad acta commissioners, to whom it assigns, in lieu, the power to adopt the necessary deeds or provisions or to see to the execution of the projects”.
The premier Giorgia Meloni, who has proven to be a tough leader albeit often a prisoner of her ghosts of the past and mostly mediocre ministerial company, think about it and quickly provide for it. There is no more time to delay, otherwise the responsibility for the failure of the PNRR will have only one name and one surname: hers.
