Scandinavian-Mediterranean corridor, a Swedish delegation visiting in Sicily and to Malta



Tomorrow and thursday a Swedish delegation will be visiting in Sicily and Malta within an initiative that answers to the invitation of Pat Cox, European coordinator of the Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor that last February has been visiting in the Italian island, and that it has the scope to construct alliances and to promote a more strategic role of the more peripheral regions of the corridor near the European Union.

The visit, cured from organization profit WISDO Public Policy & Management in the within of its mission not to represent the interests of the South Italy near the European institutions, has been programmed upon request of the two regions more to North of Sweden, the regions of recently inserted Västerbotten and Norrbotten inside of the Scandinavian-Mediterranean Corridor, and in collaboration with the Authority of Harbour System of the Sea of Sicily Oriental, the S.A.C. Society Catania Airport and the Infrastructure and Ministry of Transportation of Malta.

"This that joins the interests of these two camente so distant areas geogra ? - has explained Alessandra Arcodia, European director Affari of WISDO, illustrating the motivations of the initiative - it is that, as the Sicily to South, also these regions of Sweden to North, represent the more peripheral part of the Scan-Med Corridor. There is therefore a mutual interest to construct a strong alliance and to establish an intense cooperation with the objective to act with in the representation of the interests near the European institutions, in order to inside increase the attention turned towards the more peripheral regions of the Scandinavian-Mediterranean corridor of the trans-European policies of transport".

The eight representatives of the Swedish delegation will reach tomorrow to Augusta where they will be received by the AdSP of the Sea of Sicily Oriental and, after to have visited the infrastructure harbour, they will entertain themselves in an exchange of views with Marco Falcone, city council member to Infrastructures and mobility of the Region Sicily, Carlo Guglielmi, general secretary of the AdSP, Massimo Scatà, managing general and institutional Transactions of the AdSP, Rosario Torrisi Riganò, only administrator of Society of Sicilian Interposing you, and Stefano Sberna, managing of the commercial Direction and exercise net for the Director Tirrenica South of Italian Railway Net.

In the afternoon the representatives will visit the airport of Catania where a moment is previewed of confronts with Domenico Torrisi, managing director of the Society Airport Catania (S.A.C.), Daniela Baglieri, president of the S.A.C., and Antonio Palumbo. Therefore the delegation will take a flight for Malta where thursday will be received by the Ministry of Transportation of Malta and will visit the ports of Valletta and Marsaxlokk. The route will be concluded on 4 October with a visit of the airport of Luqa.