The memorandum of understanding signed by the mayors and councils of Messina and Reggio, as has been said and written, is an important step forward towards integration between the cities of the Strait. This is nothing new, because over the decades attempts have been made, in various ways and on various occasions, to realize the dream of a truly integrated Strait Area. During the morning spent on board one of the private shipowners’ ships – the two municipal administrations, in reality, could have, and should have, chosen one of the Ferrovie dello Stato ferries, but that’s it… – the regulatory passage carried out in 2019 was recalled. We must not, therefore, go back to the seventies-eighties period of the last century but to just 7 years ago. In May 2019, in fact, there was the ratification of the agreement stipulated two months earlier, for the establishment of the Integrated Area of the Strait between the Sicilian Region, the Region of Calabria, the metropolitan cities of Messina and Reggio Calabria and the permanent interregional conference for the coordination of policies in the Strait Area.
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