(ANSA) - ROME, 08 JAN - About an hour of meeting, to talk about priorities that are "in the interest of Italy and Europe".
This is the clue coming from Brussels on the bilateral agreement that will be held in Rome between Ursula von der Leyen and Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, which will also be attended by the Minister for EU Affairs, Cohesion and the Pnrr Raffaele Fitto.
The National Recovery and Resilience Plan will certainly be among the main items on the table.
In theory, Italy would like more time to fine-tune the targets agreed with the EU.
The problem for the government is not the quantity of resources but their absorption.
The EU will hardly agree to postpone the Next Generation deadline beyond 2026.
But on the changes to the plan, the negotiation is open and, under the radar, it has already reached an advanced level.
If the Pnrr is a topic dear above all to Italy, the dossier of aid to
EU industry is the challenge that von der Leyen has set for himself between now and next summer.
The goal is to create a European Inflation Reduction Act in response to the US inflation law.
There will be another hot dossier on the table, that of migration.
Von der Leyen and Meloni will also talk about it, starting from a point on which, in reality, there has never been a difference between Italy and the EU: migrants at sea must be saved.
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