NRRP in implementation phase, spending to increase, European Affairs Minister Raffaele Fitto says. "We have passed the phase of planning and tenders and are in fact in the implementation phase of all interventions," he says.

Italy's revised NRRP to make the economy greener, more modern and less dependent on Russian fossil fuels is worth a total of 194.4 billion euros. Late last year the country received the fourth installment of payment worth 16.5 billion euros, taking to around 90 billion euros the total amount paid out so far by Brussels.