The governors of Calabria and Sicily invite the new government to realize the bridge on the Strait of Messina



recognizing some the valence are for the Southern Italy that for the entire nation. In a letter sent to the Prime Minister, Mario Monti, the president of the regional agency calabro, Giuseppe Scopelliti, has emphasized that "the Calabria Region considers the construction of the bridge fundamental on the Strait. My Region - it has added - suffers from a gap infrastructural remarkable and the construction of mega the work will carry of the benefits to our territory to the pairs of that sicilian one".

A missive of analogous tenor is sent to Monti and the minister for the Development, Infrastructures and the Transports, Corrado Passera, from the president of the Sicilian Region, Raffaele Lombardo, in which rimarca "the importance that not only covers the realization of the bridge on the Strait of Messina for the directly interested Regions, but for the entire Country".

In its letter the president of the Calabria Region has remembered that "with the president of the Lombardic Sicily Region we have got ahead, recently, a battle to defense of the corridor 1 Berlin-Palermo that risked to favorite being to another railway director. The Europe Union - it has found Scopelliti - has very comprised the importance of such road axis and for this our demands have had positive outcome. In this optical the bridge on the Strait is an indispensable, strategic work for this director. A work that sure will serve to the Calabria and the Sicily for a new economic development of this area".

"Draft of places of work that will be created with the construction of the work - has not only specified Scopelliti - but to introduce the entire world as, also in the deep South, it is possible to construct a useful infrastructure to the only population and to the world".

"By the strategic point of view - it has confirmed Lombardic - firmly they are convinced that the bridge is the concrete answer to the need of a more efficient and modern system of connection between the Sicily, the remainder of the Country and Europe. In such sense, of great relief it is the confirmation arrived from Brussels with regard to the priority attributed to the railway axis of the new Helsinki-Palermo Corridor, that it has in the bridge one I unwind crucial".

For Lombardic, "to realize the great work it means to create the favorable conditions for I throw again economic-social of the area of the Strait, with a total economic impact of beyond eight billions of occupational fallen back remarkable euros and for the regions on which the bridge insists, placing also a bank to the unemployment phenomenon that hits the areas of the Messinese".

The president of the Region Calabria Scopelliti has concluded having recommended the prime Minister Monti "not to delay the iter since all this would flow to chain on our Country and on our territories" and it has been said convinced that "from the government, on this problem, there will be the maximum attention".

From part its Lombardic one has written that "every eventual delay in the realization of the work would be translate unavoidably in a damage for the Country, in terms of investments lost" and has wished therefore that the main work because - it has specified - this would allow "to activate from quickly extraordinary fallen back associate-economic, with decisive effects for the current context of crisis" is started as soon as possible.