(Finance) – “Three third-party authorities, Antitrust, Transport and Enac, have judged the tariff decree to be in full compliance with European guidelines. The objective is to protect users, in particular those who have no alternatives to reach the islands, Sicily and Sardinia At peak times the price of airline tickets exceeded one thousand euros.” This is what the Minister of Business and Made in Italy declared, Adolfo Ursus, on Sky TG24. “Even during the flood in Emilia Romagna, when cars and trains could not travel, plane tickets exceeded the price of a thousand euros: this is called profiteering“, he added.
“Today at Mimitwhich is a glass house, there will be the Comparison table with 8 airlinesmanagement company of airports, railways and regions with the aim of verifying whether the decree can be improved, while maintaining the same goals“, recalled the minister who then responded to the CEO’s criticisms Ryanair, Micheal O’ Leary, who defined the tariff decree approved by Mimit as “rubbish” and “inapplicable”. “Last year most of the 300 million in incentives for air transport they were given to Ryanair and this has been happening for 20 years”, underlined Urso.
The minister then spoke on Ita-Lufthansa dossier. “Europe has been asking Italian governments to resolve the ITA issue through privatization for years. We are tackling it following the impulse given to us by the EU, something that previous governments have failed to do. It would be unreasonable if we were limitations, the EU should instead give a positive and laudable opinion”, he said.
Urso also commented on the decision of the president of the von der Leyen to commission Mario Draghi to outline a strategy for the future of competitiveness of the EU to stand up to China and the USA. “He is certainly a resource of our Europe, as president of the ECB he was able to protect European and Italian interests. The editorial he wrote for a European newspaper (The Economist, ed) in which he says that the EU cannot go back, in particular on the Stability Pact. I think that the task given to him goes in the right direction”.