"Italy has reiterated at the EU Transport Council its need to review decarbonisation policies conceived in a profoundly different from the current one". This was announced by the deputy minister Edoardo Rixi, speaking today at the meeting of the European Union Transport Ministers in course in Luxembourg.

"The ecological transition," Rixi pointed out, "must proceed with pragmatism, technological neutrality and openness alternative fuels, avoiding ideological approaches that risk penalizing industry, work and competitiveness. Europe needs to strengthen its logistics system, making it more resilient and flexible in the face of a increasingly unstable international level. They cannot be - he said continued the Deputy Minister - building European policies without take into account what happens outside the Union's borders and its effects on supply chains and costs for businesses and citizens. This is why we support the development of sustainable fuels, from aviation SAF to biofuels and diesel and the strengthening of the Motorways of the Sea. At the same time we believe it is necessary to overcome a maritime ETS that risks move traffic and investments to non-European ports, weakening the continental logistics system. On fleets We share the environmental objectives, but we are against it the introduction of mandatory quotas for electric vehicles".

"We need - concluded Rixi - incentives and flexibility, not new constraints that do not take into account the differences between the national markets and current critical issues infrastructural".