"I hope that Matteo Renzi is a joke, indeed it will definitely". Otherwise? "Otherwise, it is an attitude that is unfair beyond offensive". Is furious Renato Accorinti, the mayor of Messina is seen to rain from the nothing the re-opening by the premier to the construction of the Bridge across the Strait. "Renzi, I saw a short time ago in Calabria for the inauguration of the power line, Terna: he said that he was not totally opposed to the Bridge, but that first we wanted the infrastructure. Then or today, it’s a joke or he takes us around," says the first citizen of peloritani, reached on the phone by he helped.en.
Yet the meaning of the words of the premier, it seems clear: to revive the project of the Bridge.
"But what is the Bridge? What is he talking about? Here we have a railway system by the second world war, single-track, diesel. On the Messina – Catania motorway, we came to a landslide and the highway is still broken. Messina and Catania, two metropolitan cities that are not connected between them. What they would have done if a similar thing occurred between Turin and Milan?"
What would they have done?
"I Would have immediately restored the motorway network: now! Here we do not talk on the phone because I am in the car and as there are repeaters to the fall line (that in fact falls 4 times in a few minutes, ed). There are the roads, the ports, the commercial ports, highways: we do not have the basics to be able to live and speak to us of the Bridge."
Yet, according to the premier the Bridge would be a useful infrastructure to the South.
"The roads are useful, the schools are useful, these cultural works are useful. I’m not against the cement: the cement when it is used well it is a synonym of development. But the Bridge is useful to what? Do not say ” poppycock".
Useful to remove the Calabria from the isolation and to move closer to Sicily, so at the very least supports the chairman of the board.
"But what insulation? Japan is isolated only because it is an island? We need infrastructure that will lead us from the middle ages to modernity, for half a century, we are left to ourselves. We need the bases for development, to be able to launch into the world the natural beauties, architectural and artistic".
However, the premier claims that the Bridge could create jobs: you have talked about 100 thousand new employees.
"that’s enough, this theory of the job has really broken my balls. It is annoying and populist more than that to be false. Also make holes in the ground and then hire people that covers them creates the work: it is an offence to our intelligence. They don’t understand that if rilanciassero really the South would have the entire Country to benefit from: the south is the jewel of Italy, forgotten by all. It’s like having a leg that is going gangrene, and caring".
You speak of the South, forgotten by the State, of the middle ages, but perhaps some of the blame on the have the citizens of that Noon so underdeveloped: o is among those who download all the responsibility on Rome?
"it’s clear that we have our faults. The politicians, our politicians, first of all you are guilty: the bandits who, for decades, if they are ripped off, selling off our future and our survival. Is what I’m going to say the Anci".
What he is going to say the Anci?
"That the Anci is – or should be – only from Trento to Trapani. It is, therefore, the time has come to create a section of the Italian municipalities in the South who has a home in the South. Where there are only decades of political bandits, but also people who have a lot of desire to work. Are the citizens of the South of Italy that built the rest of the Country: those who emigrated to the North, abroad, in Belgium".
Here are now may work for building the Bridge…
I can assure you that will not happen ever. Renzi should say what he wants but it was enough for a simple No Virginia-Rays and the Olympic games of Rome have evaporated. I am the mayor of Messina and for the years I have guided the activists, who said No to the Bridge: we started at 10, we arrived to be 25 thousand to the streets of the city while still having parties and newspapers against. But then what do you think they solve it with a bridge of 3 kilometers to be connected are two regions where there is absolutely nothing?".
and Yet, Bettino Craxi, until Renzi, passing obviously by Silvio Berlusconi, the Bridge on the Strait is practically never out of the political agenda in italy: according to you, as ever?
"Because it is easy to populism In the collective imagination of a new bridge is always a positive thing. Shame this is only a work from the enormous costs, overtaken by history and also by the economy. In your opinion, how ever, is not got no private to get the money? Speaking of project financing, but to manage it does not ought to ever to anyone, only to one who builds with public funds. Without considering the earthquake risk".
That is another of the great questions raised by the contrary to the great work.
"Matteo Renzi know what you should do? Should call the geologist Mario Tozzi and have him explain that where they want to place the pillars there is the earthquake fault more dangerous than the Mediterranean: if it does unfold and then build the Bridge."
The premier had also said that before the Bridge was to get the water to Messina: it’s never arrived?
"it’s precisely. Know what happened here? Have never put in the safety of a mountain, which is fallen down, damaging the aqueduct. We have found a solution to restore everything with a bypass but the mountain still has not been put in yet. What do they do on the higher floors? They do understand that it is the fault of the mayor: but in which Country the infrastructure is the responsibility of the municipalities? This attitude is criminal: we can’t go on like this. Another Bridge".
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“the Bridge on The Strait of Messina can create 100 thousand jobs. We are ready for that. If you are in the conditions to bring the cards and fix what is firm for ten years, we will unlock it”. Matteo Renzi speaks during the ceremony for the 110 years of Salini Impregilo in front of an audience of entrepreneurs and at the same number one, Pietro Salini, – that by the General Contractor (check Eurolink 49%) is seen sliding from his hand, the work in 2012 under the Monti government – and to some surprise raises the historical project. “What I ask of you is that, after the part of the reforms, we can go back to plan for the future. You have to unlock the sites, and serves as broadband, because the network of tomorrow will not be a dam in Italy, neither the highway of the Sun, but the note on the bandwidth, the gigabyte society, to speed,” said the premier before stepping into the negotiations with Brussels with a duration of up to an exceedingly great evening to tick 0.1% higher flexibility for “exceptional events”. Bringing the deficit for the 2017 to 2.4% compared to 2.3% in the agreed during the afternoon with the european Commission (for the macroeconomic framework, see page 3).
A few weeks now, from the crucial referendum on constitutional reform, it is clear that the words of Renzi, on the Bridge over the Strait will be interpreted as a way to make the crack in the electorate of the South and maybe in the historic centre-right. Arouse for another, the “confusion” of the left of the Pd, and the invective of Beppe Grillo, who commented on the announcement by defining the premier a “crippled moral.” Even criticism from the League leader Matteo Salvini, who asks, rather, “make it work, trains from Trapani to Ragusa put us 10 hours.” And even criticism by the leader of Forza Italia in the Chamber Renato Brunetta, despite the Bridge over the Strait has been, for years, the "dream" of Silvio Berlusconi. Placet, instead, by the allies centrist government, with Angelino Alfano planning to asking immediately for a Ddl ad hoc. The priority, you know, in environments to check out, it is still the Salerno – Reggio Calabria (will be ready by 22 December, we will be riding in the car with Delrio,” said Renzi), the high speed up to Apulia and Calabria and the railways of sicily. But to say no as of now in a work like the Bridge would say no to the future – is the reasoning – as the M5S has done over the Olympics.
the Bridge on The Strait fits into reality for Renzi in a more complex bet on the infrastructure of the Country, being almost the symbol, and on the recovery of investment on which Renzi has placed great emphasis in his speech, the Salini Impregilo: “you Have to understand that investments are a priority, Europe must start afresh from the investment. If a Country has $ 89 billion of trade surplus, one case, namely Germany, is not doing only harm to herself but also to Europe”. And, not surprisingly, the revival of the great works done a few hours before diving in the negotiations with Brussels for the launch of the Def. “The deficit/Gdp will be 2% – announces finally, Renzi, down in the press room at the end of the Council of ministers in the evening -. As regards the Gdp, we are at 0.8%, and this is a conservative estimate to Padoan, and 1% in 2017″. 0.4% additional put into the account is for exceptional circumstances and must be scomputato by the Pact of stability, stresses Renzi, and in the case of Italy the exceptional events are the costs for the reconstruction after the earthquake in central Italy, and the costs for the emergency migrants. “On the issue of migrants – has marked the premier – we are seriously in credit with Europe”. Renzi is also pushing to “suggest” to the title to the reporters present in the press room: “The title, the summary is: the deficit goes down, the Gdp goes up, the two of them with a trajectory that is less wide as we wanted, but they both continue to go in the right direction.”
at The press conference the night was, of course, also present the minister of the Economy Pier Carlo Padoan, who ensured that the privatisation will go ahead. But without possibility to sell: “The privatisation programme goes ahead, has been slowed for the volatility is particularly high this year in the financial markets. We are not with water in the throat, we do not want to sell. We have a path which will continue into 2017″.
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