Von der Leyen: "The first payment of the Next Generation EU is underway, congratulations to Italy"

"Good news for Italy: the first payment from the Next Generation Eu for 21 billion euros for Italy is underway".

This was announced by the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in a tweet in Italian., Adding: "Congratulations to Italy.

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Von der Leyen attaches to the tweet a previous video message, dated February 28, in which he indicated that "Italy has made sufficient progress in the implementation of the national plan for recovery and can receive the first payment under the Next Generation Eu" a once "the Member States will also have given their green light".

The president then recalled that Italy is "

of the Next Generation Eu and will receive a total

.

Italy has so far made sufficient progress with the reforms necessary to make the country's economy and society ready for the future, with a more digital public administration and a more efficient judicial system, for example, and with an education and training system. a more inclusive labor market.

So congratulations to Italy, keep it up! ”.

The

, after receiving the green light from Brussels, underlines that "the payment of the first installment of the NRP represents a further step in the path of implementation of the investments and reforms envisaged by the Plan. These are interventions that will make it possible to

, strengthen the production system, modernize the public administration, reduce the time of justice and increase the endowment of

of our country ". The Treasury specifies that today" the European Commission has paid Italy the first installment of 21 billion euros for the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, following the positive evaluation of the payment request presented by Rome at the end December, which certified the achievement of the 51 objectives set in the NRP for 2021. This installment, which follows the disbursement in August of 24.9 billion by way of pre-financing, has a total value of approximately 24.1 billion euro, with a portion of non-repayable contributions equal to 11.5 billion and one part of loans equal to 12.6 billion.

The amount actually paid of € 21 billion (divided between 10 billion in grants and 11 billion in loans) is net of a portion that the Commission retains on each repayment installment,