The mayor of Messina, Federico Basile, convened the meeting of the “Permanent Bridge Table on the Strait” for August 19. It will be the first of a series of meetings, because-as the name itself says-that table, in fact, must be installed without continuity, in view of the start of the pre-cantorization phase. The municipal administration intends to deal with the economic subjects, the productive and social forces and the trade union organizations, beyond the various political positions (the eternal debate between the “yes” and the “no” persists), on the aspects that most concern Messina and the Messina: the impact of the works in the territory, the costs and benefits, the guarantees on the employment and time level. “We must be the protagonists of a process that will mark, in any case, an epochal turning point for Messina and for the entire area of the Strait”, Federico Basile has been repeating for months. The large employment plan, often cited by Minister Salvini, – who also yesterday highlighted how “is absurd to be against a great work that will take 120 thousand jobs in regions such as Sicily and Calabria, making young people return, forming students and graduates” – must be translated into concrete acts.
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