Italy can't afford any delays in the implementation of its post-COVID recovery programme, the European Union's Economic Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said, as the country heads to the polls this month to elect a new government.
Asked if changes to the EU-wide recovery programme could be considered to take into account the energy crisis facing the bloc, Gentiloni said energy transition was already a core objective of the programme and only a fine-tuning of the recovery plans countries have agreed was possible.
