Minister Fitto: Italy’s delays in spending EU funds are known, structural intervention needed
14 April 2023
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“The figures published on the European Commission’s Cohesion Data portal, which place Italy in penultimate position in Europe for spending 2014-2020 programming period funds, unfortunately confirm what we have known for a long time and this is something we had already flagged up in our Implementation progress report for the 2014-2020 programming period”, stated Minister for European Affairs, Southern Italy, Cohesion Policy and the NRRP Raffaele Fitto.
“Italy is not managing to spend European Union cohesion funds in a satisfactory and efficient manner. This is why – continued Minister Fitto – it is more necessary and urgent than ever to intervene in a structural way to change the system for using the funds. This is a crucial challenge for our country”.