Pedro Dominguinhos, president of the National Monitoring Commission for the RRP, assesses in an interview that Portugal should meet the targets and milestones agreed with Brussels, although with different impacts from those initially planned. He warned that several public works investments, such as the extension of the red and violet lines of the Lisbon Metro, the Crato Dam, and the Algarve desalination plant, had to be removed from the RRP due to inability to execute in a timely manner, putting pressure on the State Budget in the coming years, since Portugal 2030 will not have the capacity to absorb all these situations. He highlighted the mobilizing agendas as having the greatest transformative potential of the plan, with approximately seven billion euros in investment, but criticized delays in hydrogen investments, administrative problems at testbeds and DIHs, and the overload of targets and milestones that Portugal had compared to other European countries. He advocated that it is necessary to reflect on planning, public procurement, and litigation mechanisms to improve the effectiveness of public investments.
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