Denouncing that "Vienna blocks the border by prohibiting the transit of lorries in Austria', Monday in Bolzano on Minister of Infrastructure and Transport, Matteo Salvini, has announced that 'the Italian Government will have recourse to the European Court of Justice to ask to stop an act illegitimate, arrogant, bringing pollution, traffic, chaos and economic disparity between entrepreneurs and road hauliers, Italians, Germans and Europeans compared to the Austrians'.

The International Road also intervened on the issue Transport Union (IRU) which addressed a new letter to President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, inviting it to launch a new round of negotiations between Germany, Italy and Austria to find a solution to the Brenner impasse. In the letter, signed by IRU together with the associations national AISÖ (Austria), BGL (Germany), FAI (Italy), FNTR (France), ITD (Denmark), 3NLA (Denmark, Norway, Sweden) and TLN (Netherlands), please note that the writers have several times reported "the intolerable traffic situation transalpine. Within the framework of Tyrol's anti-transport policy Road - explained the associations - in recent years the The Tyrolean Regional Council has adopted numerous measures which have led to massive blockades of transalpine road freight traffic along the Brenner line. One of the most obvious measures are the unilateral restrictions imposed at the border crossing point of Kufstein, which in 2023 take place every 41 days. The result is repeated queues of trucks up to 70 kilometers long and waiting up to ten hours on the German side of the Inn Valley. The result is unbearable and dangerous situations for the Movement of all road users'.

Recalling the talks launched by the Commission in recent months EU with the three Member States concerned to find a solution friendly to the problems of transalpine traffic, in the letter stresses that, despite this, "so far it is not No agreement has been reached on how in the future the free movement of goods can be managed in accordance with with Community law. At the meeting of the Council of Transport Ministers of June 2023, several Member States, including to which Italy and Germany, involved in the ongoing negotiations, have manifestly expressed their discontent at the lack of progress in the negotiations and called on the Commission to take action on a time and for all and to find a solution to the Brenner problem'.

Reminding von der Leyen that last July 25, during the talks with the Bavarian government in Bayreuth, he told the press that until then Austria had rejected all proposals and which the Commission would propose to the Member States A final mediation meeting is involved, the letter complains that "this meeting has not yet taken place. We would appreciate so much - the associations wrote - any Information on the date scheduled for this last meeting of mediation and on the measures that the Commission has in mind in the case in where nothing is achieved. If even the last meeting of Mediation fails - concludes the letter - this could to mean, in our view, only that the Commission would take action finally infringement proceedings against Austria'.

The appeal addressed to the President of the European Commission is is associated with the European Shippers' Council (ESC), the organisation representing European shippers.