The Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan: Opportunities, Challenges, Grey Areas, and the Need to Reconcile Politics and Policy

This article introduces the rationale of the Symposium. It emphasizes that while the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) constitutes a key opportunity for Italy to enact major reforms and drive a process of modernisation of the administrative and economic system, its implementation is hampered by a political system that has proved immature to deliver a long-term policy agenda. In the conclusions, the authors stress the risk that – also in the light of the recent government crisis and forthcoming early general elections, in a decidedly complicated international scenario – the Italian NRRP may become a missed opportunity.