It takes to the way from Trieste a visit in the Northeast of Italy of the Commission Transports and Tourism of the Parliament EU



This morning to Trieste president of the Region Friuli Venice Julia, Renzo Tondo, has met Brian Simpson, president of the Commission Trasporti and Tourism of the European Parliament, organ parliamentarian who own this morning has begun from the giuliana city an intense visit of three days in the Northeast of Italy, that it will touch therefore Veneto then and the Lombardy, in order to in the field verify the projects, the potentialities and state of the art of great infrastructures of communitarian importance: street, railway, harbour and airport.

Round it has illustrated to Simpson the peculiar characteristics of the Friuli Venice Julia: its special autonomy, its history and its geographic position, than it return an extraordinary logistic platform to the service of Europe. "You - he has found Simpson - are in a crucial position, represented a "cross" in the European system of the transports. It is necessary to look to beyond the borders, to head at the international collaboration in order to demonstrate the "added value" that your infrastructures have for Europe".

The regional agency has evidenced as the participations of the mayor of Trieste, Roberto Cosolini, and of the president of the Province of Trieste, Maria Teresa Bassa Poropat, they have moreover confirmed the cohesion of the institutions around the projects of great infrastructures and as from I confront with the president of the Commission and the europarlamentari the importance is emerged that the European institutions assign by sea to the modalities and via railroad, to go to a sustainable transport from the point of view of the atmosphere, and to the drafts of transboundary connection. To this end, Round it has remembered the next constitution of the GECT "Euregio Without borders" with Veneto and Carinthia, that the logistics has between its strategic objectives own.

To the encounter, than it has been carried out in the center of the presidency of the Region, Round was placed side by side by the regional city council member to Infrastructures, Riccardo Riccardi. Besides mayor Cosolini and to president of the Province Bassa Poropat they are taken part the Alessandro Giacchetti prefect, the secretary of the Initiative Centro Europea (InCE), Gerhard Pfanzelter, the provincial city council member to Infrastructures, Vittorio Zollia, and the director of the marine Direction of Trieste, Antonio Basile. With Simpson members have participated to the reunion some the Commission Transports: Eva Lichtenberger (Austria), Antonio Cancian and Carlo Fidanza, with europarlamentare Debora Serracchiani, that he has contributed to promote the series of encounters. The visit is continued with a inspection to the port of Trieste on board of a boat and it will conclude itself with a reunion to the InCE.