The demographic winter knocks overwhelmingly for the doors for some time. And in Calabria young people go away because the work is not there. A lethal mix for the prospects of this land. Is aware of this Nino Foti, former Calabrian parliamentarian of the center -right and now responsible for the South of us moderate usthe political formation guided nationally by Maurizio Lupi.
How much does the infrastructure gap with the rest of the country weigh on all this?
«A lot, and the perspectives are not at all positive. On the high railway speed we know, for example, that of the 30 billion necessary to complete the work are available, according to the last public finance document approved by the CDM, just 12, sufficient to cover the realization of the first Battipaglia-Romagna lot. The potential of the PNRR funds have not been exploited inexplicably and therefore for the completion of the work it will be necessary to find other resources, and wait at least another 6 years. For the definitive completion of Salerno-Reggio Calabria there are still 58 km away, despite the lies of the Gentiloni government pronounced at the inauguration with great pomp of the so-called “Mediterranean motorway”. Not to mention the state road 106 which, net of some partial interventions, is completely abandoned, especially in the stretch affecting the Ionian area of Reggina ».
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