“I spent all European funds.” The game won by Schifani in Sicily

John

By John

The destination seemed to a step already last December, so much so that the governor Renato Schifani spoke of “challenge won”, until the final confirmation arrived yesterday: the Region spent all the EU resources of the FESR 2014-2020 program, that is,, translated in other terms, nothing of the funds in question has been lost.
A result, they remarked from Palazzo d’Orleans, far from obvious given the amount of money and interventions involved, with over 6,500 projects carried out for a total amount of 3.8 billion euros – of which 3.4 from Brussels – and a pouring tambur rhythm played in the last two years, with “a billion and a half billion euros used between July 2023 and June 2025, demonstrating the acceleration of acceleration. Impreted: a goal made possible thanks to the remodeling of the resources started by my government, which has made it possible to recover time and precious funds “, underlines Schifani himself.
The turning point dates back to two years ago, when the Po Fesr Sicily surveillance committee discussed the reprogramming and corrections of 823.5 million proposed by the Region in Palermo to ferry the operational program to its closing date, set at 31 December 2023, without sending part of the allocations in smoke.
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