Italy squanders €150m in EU grants

The southern Italian regions of Sicily, Calabria and Campania have failed to spend hundreds of millions of euros in European Union (EU) culture and tourism funding, according to our sister newspaper Il Giornale dell’Arte. Elsewhere in Italy, Lombardy and Tuscany in the north and Basilicata and Puglia in the south are using between 70% and 80% of their allocated EU culture funding, in line with many EU countries.
Sicily and Naples have emerged as the worst offenders. The EU has withdrawn &