Passera: the priority infrastructures are those which connect Italy with Europe



Liberalizations and realization of priority infrastructures. On these two main pillars the action of the new government in the field of the transports that is delineated today in the essential terms from the minister of the economic Development, Infrastructures and the Transports, Corrado Passera, in the course of a audition near the Commission Transports, Posts and Telecommunications of the Chamber of Deputies will melt.

"Key word is liberalization, that is the use, at best, of the competition in all the fields", Passera has explained specifying but that he must be a competition "very regulated". In this direction - the minister has said - the new Authority of the Transports goes that the government wants to create and that he is inserted in the first bill launched from executive past Sunday.

Sul topic of infrastructures and deep destined they, Passera has emphasized the current dramatic general deficiency of resources that characterizes the total scene and therefore has found the necessity to characterize priority participations towards which addressing the limited bottoms available. "We know - it has clarified the minister - than we cannot make all what there is in lists, in the promoters: documents are read - it has observed - where are all and still more. We know that he is not so. We will have to use the good sense in choosing this that is priority". And this that is priority - has specified - "very often he is that connects us to the remainder of Europe and is coherent with the construction of the European market".

With respect to the resources, Passera has remembered that they pile to about 12,5 billion euros, of which 2,2 of deep private, the total resources unblocked by the CIPE on indication of the ministry of the economic Development, Infrastructures and the Transports. In a note the ministry has emphasized that, thanks to these participations, it will be possible to maintain operating beyond 130 yards, plus others 82 for little ones participations in Southern Italy, and to open new 40 within next the three months and that places of work with the forecast are confirmed 170 thousand to create about 80 thousand new opportunity.

The minister but has confirmed also the concrete danger to lose a huge deep amount of European: "one of the first things that we have felt - has explained - it is that within the year we will risk to lose "the crazy" amounts of billions, what that in a moment of lack of resources is mortifies, painful guilty and". "It is clear - he has continued - that it is difficult to succeed to recover all these resources and to save them. What tomorrow in the encounter with some presidents of Region, and however within the 15, we will try to make with Boat (the new minister to the territorial Cohesion, ndr), and for which the however government it has put of the money in first I decree to Monti own in order to make the co-financing of the European resources that they are about to be lost, is to try to raccattare all what he is recoverable". If we succeed to find the agreement with the Regions - it has specified - "some (many) billions that would go sure lost them we go to recover".

Stopping fastly on some other topics, Passera has observed that for the ports "we will have to make of the choices: to concentrate us where we can fastly become part of the European net of the ports". In the answers to the parliamentarians members of the Commission, Passera has explained that, for example, for the port of Taranto, than - has remembered - "Network of the nets has entered in Core TRIES", in the Council of Ministers of next monday such insertion "will be proposed for lowers it" and therefore has specified that not sussiste "therefore some second thought on the logistic plate" tarantina. Moreover Passera has confirmed that in the priority works figure also the logistic platform of Trieste.

Speaking about the crisis of the portualità of transhipment in Southern Italy, the minister has defined "crazy" to lose "the occasion of being a super logistic plate in the Mediterranean". "To see the world-wide colossus that they are they leave the ports of the South - it has added - is a truth that must tell us that we have not been very good until now".

Sul forehead of the airports, the minister has evidenced the error "to make of tens and tens in all Italy, useless and very often completely unreasonable" and the necessity to avoid "to go ahead with the philosophy of an airport in every province".

Passera has restated also the urgency to get ahead the realization of the railway line to high Turin-Lyon speed, for which - he has emphasized - "I assure the full respect of the tracing and the cronoprogramma".