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The European Commission pays Italy its first instalment of 21 billion euros On 13 April, the European Commission paid Italy the first instalment of 21 billion euros for the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, following the positive assessment of the payment request submitted by Rome at the end of December, [...]

The aim is to encourage practices to store coal in the soil in a sustainable way The EU goal for the coming years is as follows: to store more carbon in agricultural and forest soils to reduce the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere, favouring with ad hoc financing the [...]

The continuous growth of innovative startups and SMEs is driving the recovery and the digital transition in Italy. According to the report on the fourth quarter 2021 of the Ministry of Economic Development with Unioncamere, InfoCamere and Mediocredito Centrale, the innovative startups registered in the special section of the Register [...]

There are 318.000 hirings planned by Italian companies in February, 1.023.000 the forecast between February and April. Numbers slightly down from the beginning of the year but growing compared to the same period of 2021. In Sardinia, 7.450 employees are scheduled by companies in February (+2.160 compared to February 2021) [...]

The Italian agri-food industry risks to pay for the effect on the market of the conflict in Ukraine. This is confirmed by an analysis of ISMEA, the Institute of Services for the Agricultural Food Market. According to the study, Italy is particularly vulnerable due to its high degree of dependence [...]

The European Commission has approved the positive preliminary assessment of the Italian request for payment of 21 billion euros, of which 10 billions of subsidies and 11 billion of loans, in the framework of the device for the recovery and the resilience (RRF), the key tool of the NextGenerationEU program. [...]

From 25 March to 5 June 2022, farms will be able to apply for EU premiums for organic production. The awards, established by the European Economic and Social Committee, the Committee of the Regions, Copa-Cogeca and Ifoam Organics Europe, are seven, will recognise excellence along the biological value chain, and [...]

The European Commission raised an additional 5 billion euros in NextGenerationEU funds. The new cash flow that will be used to support the post-covid recovery of European countries, is the result of the issue of 30-year bonds, maturing on 6 July 2051, which brings the total funding raised under the [...]

The Energy Law-Decree reserves a tax credit for companies in Southern Italy that make investments in the southern regions to improve energy efficiency and promote autonomous production of energy from renewable sources. The available resources amount to 290 million euros and will be provided in the form of tax credits [...]

The European Commission and the EIB Group sign InvestEu agreements for 372 billion euros of investments in all member countries. InvestEu is an incentive package adopted by the EU to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic and help build a greener, more digital and more resilient European economy. InvestEu consists of [...]