(Finance) – Very cordial phone call from the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Sustainable Infrastructures and Mobility, Matteo Salvini, and the European Commissioner for Transport Adina Valean.
This is what a spokesman for the minister reports, explaining that the the interview was an opportunity to confirm the close collaboration between Italy and the European institutions. Salvini anticipated the government’s ambition: to build the bridge over the Strait that “would allow to connect Sicily to the heart of Europe with an engineering work unique in the world”.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Minister also touched on the issue of the Turin-Lyon railway connection (“it is necessary to confirm the European co-financing”, Salvini specified) and the “Fit for 55”, stressing the need to find ambitious but realistic solutions “in the interests of citizens and businesses”.
Furthermore, the issue of the Tyrolean unilateral prohibitions against the autotransporters. And he confirmed our country’s commitment to support Ukraine in the context of the “Solidarity Lanes” and possible support for the maintenance of Ukrainian roads, in view of the coming winter months, as also hoped for by Brussels.
Salvini and Valean they vowed to meet soon in Brussels.