Italy’s new Minister of Transport Matteo Salvini complains of “unilateral” Tyrolean measures.
The new Italian Transport Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini held a telephone conversation with EU Transport Commissioner Adina Valean on Monday. The minister and head of the right-wing governing party Lega presented the basic lines of the Italian government program in terms of transport and infrastructure and also addressed the question of what he believed to be “unilateral Tyrolean driving bans”, as Salvini’s ministry announced in a press release.
“The phone call was an opportunity to confirm the close cooperation between Italy and the European institutions,” reported Salvini. One of the main concerns of the new government around Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is the construction of a suspension bridge over the Strait of Messina, which “would connect Sicily with the heart of Europe through an engineering structure that is unique in the world”.
Salvini and Valean also touched on the subject of the Turin-Lyon railway link, as European co-financing has yet to be confirmed. The Transport Minister and the EU Commissioner are planning a meeting in Brussels soon.
(APA/dpa)