«Within a maximum of one month we will have the response, which I hope is positive, for the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) which will allow, I repeat in the event of a positive response as I think and as I hope, definitive approval by the CIPE of the definitive project of the Bridge over the Strait with the consequent opening and start of construction works by the end of this year”. This was stated by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure, Matteo Salviniwho spoke via videoconference at the European Maritime Day held at the Palazzo delle Scienze in Catania.
«It is a necessary and fundamental infrastructure – added Salvini – which brings development, security, speed and trade to Sicily and Calabria first and foremost, but to the entire Italian system because an additional two billion and 400 million GDP per year is estimated thanks to the modernization and speeding up especially in the field of logistics transport that the bridge will bring in addition to the estimated 120,000 jobs during and after the construction of the infrastructure”.