The
videoconference meeting of Prime Minister Mario Draghi with the mayors of metropolitan cities
ended after more than an hour
.
The meeting was also attended by the Minister of Economy Daniele Franco and the owner of Regional Affairs Maria Stella Gelmini.
The government will work to enable local authorities to have the appropriate staff and the necessary skills to implement the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. According to sources who participated in the meeting, this is
the reasoning that Prime Minister Mario Draghi made during the summit
. "They must be enabled to spend and spend well," the head of government said, according to the same sources.
"President Mario Draghi in this morning's meeting with metropolitan mayors said that Metropolitan Cities will be among the most important implementing bodies of the Recovery Fund. This is what I was asking and hoping for and it is therefore a very significant step", he said. the mayor of Bologna Virginio Merola. "We are ready to manage this Plan and welcome the words of President Draghi who - he added - will support the implementation of the Plan with a process of simplification, reform of the Public Administration and assignment of adequate staff so that we can manage these funds ".
In the meantime,
the unified State-Regions-Municipalities-Provinces Conference on the Recovery Plan or National Recovery and Resilience Plan (Pnrr) has begun
, according to what is learned, convened by Minister Mariastella Gelmini and which sees the participation of Ministers Roberto Speranza (Health), Dario Franceschini (Culture), Massimo Garavaglia (Tourism) and Andrea Orlando (Work). First to speak in videoconference Speranza.