On the Strait of Messina the EU commission has decided not to decide



Siim Kallas as Ponzio Pilato: at the end if by it is washed the hands. How many days, months and years have spold to speak - he and its predecessors - about the necessity to remove the necks of bottle from the European infrastructural net TRY, the bottlenecks that they hinder flowing of goods and people?

Not there is doubt: on the opportunity to construct the Bridge on the Strait of Messina opinions adequately motivated and absolutely antithetic can be had. But it is unquestionable that the traghettamento of goods and passengers between the Calabria and the Sicily constitutes a difficulty in the net.

It appears therefore amazing that the EU commission has inserted in Core Network of the transeuropea net, introduced yesterday from Kallas ( on 19 October 2011), the railway lines Naples-Reggio Calabria and Messina-Palermo leaving an empty one between the two capilinea: the feature of sea of the Strait of Messina. Who it has asked to it because of that empty Kallas it has replied that the decision to construct or less the bridge on the Strait or to continue to use you the ferries is up to Italy.

Pro domo its minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Altero Matteoli, is itself smug of the decisions of the EU commission. "The confirmation of the old route of European Corridor 1, today Helsinki-The TV assistant, that it previews the Naples-Palermo connection with the insertion of the new railway draft Naples-Bari - has declared - is sure a political success of the government Berlusconi". Matteoli has flown over on the fact that the European Union has restated not to have some intention to assign to resources financial institutions to the construction of the bridge.

"The Italian demands are received - it has continued the minister - and recognize to the South of Italy and in particular to the Sicily their crucial role in Europe and for the system of the transports". Matteoli has shut up also on the fact that the Commission has implicitly granted that the Sicily, for being reached or in order to reach Europe, can however continue to embark human beings and producing on the ships in order to cover the three kilometers that separate those which - in the intentions of Brussels - will be two railway lines of the primary European infrastructural net.

Sometimes the EU has accused Italian politics of determination lack. Now the rebuke can be resent to the sender: the European government has decided to wash of the hands supporting that the decision touches to Italy. Matteoli is taken corrective action: the bridge - it has assured - "for the Italian government is a priority, a work necessary in order to realize a fast and modern connection between the Continent and the Sicily". Evidently without bridge the connection is slow and archaic. Strange that the EU commission of is not shrewed.

Tant'è: money from the European case will not arrive any. Matteoli has kept on the safe side: "provvederà - it has explained - with resources which retrieved on the market. Therefore they are dismissed of foundation - it has specified - some instrumental declarations on a failure by the EU of the work. So it is not as is of all evidence". It will be…

Whoever writes confesses not to have a conclusive opinion on the opportunity to realize the bridge and recognizes to catch a glimpse prejudice or gone taken in the declarations of who she is convinced that the bridge must be absolutely constructed or of those who they reject the project without to hesitate.

With this premise it cannot that to appear of part the appraisal of the Cgil that slowly praises the new one of Brussels on the great infrastructural nets: the guidelines expressed from the European Union - according to Fabrizio Solari, confederal secretary of the union, with delegation to infrastructures and the nets - "are well-advised and condivisibili". "In particular - it has emphasized - in assigning to the Bridge on the Strait of Messina a not fundamental and however not priority role, so much so that it will be excluded by the communitarian contribution". The omissivo virus that it has contaminated who has commented the new map of TRIES has not saved Solar, that she has neglected to find that the EU has promised to finance two railway lines and it will be lose interested in little more than three kilometers than water that divides to them. "So much well-advised" the proposal of Brussels does not seem.

"Continuous so - it has concluded the leader of CGIL - the action of replaces by the Union that exalts the obvious inability of the government to carry out own role. Rather than to scramble up on the mirrors in order to demonstrate the impossible one, that is that the choices announced from Brussels coincide with the priorities assumed from our government, would be useful to try to limit the damage already produced with the legend of the bridge on the strait being made to meet all the resources available in order to make to take off the really useful works quickly".

Rather than to complete an action of supplenza, to we seems instead that this time the EU commission has simply decided not to decide.

Bruno Bellio