EU Commissioner confident Italy will get post-pandemic funds

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CERNOBBIO, Italy, April 1 (Reuters) - The EU's Economy Commissioner is confident that Italy will get the latest instalment of post-pandemic funds despite questions over the meeting of targets to unlock the money. "I believe that the points that need to be clarified will be clarified, I see great goodwill on the part of the (Italian) government," Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni told a business conference in northern Italy. The European Commission has frozen an overdue 19-billion-euro tranche of post-pandemic funds. Italy has until the end of April to persuade Brussels to release the funds, a government source has told Reuters.


(Writing by Keith Weir, Editing by William Maclean)

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