The Council of Ministers on the Recovery and Resilience Plan postponed to Saturday 24 April. Overall, the available funds amounted to 221.5 billion, of which 191.5 attributable to the Recovery fund and 30 billion to the complementary fund. The funds will be divided between six “missions”: digitization, innovation, competitiveness and culture, with 42.5 billion; green revolution and ecological transition with 57 billion; infrastructure for sustainable mobility with 25.3 billion; education and research with 31.9 billion; inclusion and cohesion with 19.1 billion; health with 15.6 billion. Overall, the intervention concerns 135 investments and 7 reforms.
In 2026, investments should guarantee a growth of three points of GDP, while the average growth of the economy between 2022 and 2026 will be 1.4 points higher than in the 2015-2019 period.
On the governance front, from the latest draft, we learn that “political supervision is entrusted to a committee set up at the Prime Minister’s Office in which the competent ministers participate” and that “the government has prepared a governance plan for the Plan which provides for a central coordination structure at the Ministry of Economy. This structure supervises the implementation of the plan and is responsible for sending payment requests to the European Commission, which is subject to the achievement of the expected objectives. Alongside this coordination structure, an evaluation structure and a control structure operate. The administrations, on the other hand, are responsible for individual investments and individual reforms and send their reports to the central coordination structure. The government will also set up local task forces that can help local administrations improve their investment capacity and simplify procedures ».