The goal of the “Report” “It is to present the imperative and prevalent reasons, linked to the safety of the population, to economic development and also the environmental and health ones, so it is believed that the project of the stable connection between Sicily and Calabria must constitute a merely information communication to the European Commission pursuant to art. 6.4 of the “habitat” directive ». Here, in detail, the so -called “Iropes”, included in the resolution approved in recent days by the Council of Ministers and since yesterday in publication on the website of the Ministry of the Environment.
1) “The strategy of the reduction of the insularity of Sicily”. This is the first “imperative” reason of public interest. “The need to improve the accessibility between two of the most remote regions of Europe between them and with the rest of the continent arises from the awareness that the infrastructure equipment and the accessibility between territories are themes deeply connected to the economic productivity and social well -being of the same territories. In this context, the need is inserted to create a multimodal stable connection (road and railway) between Sicily and Calabria, thus integrating the two regions to the main national and European transport networks, confirmed by the insertion of the project in the Transe European transport network (Ten-T) within the Scandinavo-Mediterranean corridor … The work is not only an Italian infrastructure, but a project of European value, whose completion is considered functional to the European integration process “.
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