THE jobs for the realization of the Bridge on the Strait they will start in the Spring 2025. To announce the new time schedule was the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini On the occasion of his visit to Genoa on the construction sites of the single third Valico-Nodo railway project. For the secretary of the League and Vice premier, the Messina bridge project will go on because it is driven by the will of the executive not to stop at the appeals and political attacks (many must be said) received for the initiative.
Beyond the words of the competent minister, however, there are the facts that, still today, do not see granted by theEuropean Union – who will finance part of the work – the official green light. In Brussels they await further documentation, but Salvini is convinced that he will be able to follow the new process, above all taking into account that the same takes into consideration the elements that have postponed the pronunciation of Cipess (Interministerial Committee for economic programming and sustainable development), called to give approval to the executive project.
The first stone of the bridge over the Strait
These are the words of the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Matteo Salvini: “To create the Bridge on the Strait of Messina The goal is in the coming weeks to bring the documents that we will send to Brussels to the Council of Ministers, arrive at the Cipess for the approval of the final project and start with the construction site in the Spring 2025“. The European node is far from obvious, given that it is precisely on this front that the match relating to the environmental impact assessment will be played. This, it is remembered, was approved at the end of 2024, although it was not yet signed by the Minister of the Environment Gilberto Pichetto Fratin.
“Since the mandate we want to end up in 2027“, Or the natural expiry of the legislature of Giorgia Meloni,” in 2027 we will already be in the work of work advanced if everything goes as I hope that it goes, among a thousand appeals, exposed to the prosecutor, fake news and nonsense “, added Matteo Salvini.
In the words of the League vice premier also a message that suggests, at least in its vision, that Italy, that re -ramously made of workers, is with him. “In Genoa on the construction sites of the unique third project Valico-Nodo railway I caught several workers who told me we finish here and then we come to Sicily to make the bridge. A Liguria-Sicily twinning Both as companies and as workers, technicians and engineers would combine Italy in the name of development “.
The controversies do not stop
Salvini’s hopes are opposed to those of the contrary to the work On the Strait of Messina as they consider it a huge expenditure of public money that will have a strongly negative environmental impact.
Angelo Bonelli, leader of the Verdi, who continues to ask Salvini to respond to the loss of many priority habitats for that stretch of sea is convinced. Bonelli, as a spokesman for his party, underlines that building the bridge would put, for the aforementioned reasons, Italy in the condition not to respect the European provisions. A real infringement, which would lead to heavy penalties against the state and, in relapse, of the citizens.
However, Matteo Salvini would seem to have very clear ideas: “A level III impact assessment has been drawn up, in order to implement any necessary compensation measures aimed at guaranteeing in any case the objectives of storage of sites and the consistency of the Natura 2000 networkand aimed at canceling the residual accidents that remain following the implementation of defined mitigation measures “.
Remote controversy, blow and response that, inevitably, will accompany the whole process that leads to the laying of the first stone of the bridge and beyond.
