Salvini: 'Building sites for the bridge by 2024, justice does not stop projects'
The Minister of Transport at the Trento Festival - Defends the House Plan, Flat Tax and Pensions: 'the country will grow and we will do the reforms without drama'
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Infrastructure, but not only. The political agenda of the Minister of Transport Matteo Salvini, interviewed by the editor of the Messaggero Alessandro Barbano, ranges from justice to the House Plan, passing by flat tax and pensions. His speech on the stage of Trento's Social Theatre opens with a protest by Greenpeace activists and closes with an activist's appeal on the need "to listen to science" and to adopt decisive policies in favour of decarbonisation and to fight climate change.
"The energy transition can only be made by adopting a pragmatic attitude and accepting the idea that we cannot rely solely on renewables but will need to invest in nuclear energy," replied Minister Salvini, who once again reiterated his doubts about the transition to electric mobility, "which favours Chinese manufacturers and harms European industry", and about the stop to endothermic engines, considered "a suicidal choice".
From the Strait Bridge to the Genoa Ring Road, Salvini reiterates the government's focus on major works and interventions capable of improving the country's infrastructure. On the bridge, the minister reiterates his desire to open the construction sites in 2024, "it is a work that serves "not me but the country, millions of Italians," and that will contribute, says Salvini, to reducing CO2 emissions.
On Genoa, Salvini has his say on the ongoing investigation - 'I wonder if house arrest was necessary for President Toti' - and reiterates how justice cannot hold back projects and infrastructures. On the subject of the Gronda, Salvini then broadened the discourse to the issue of motorway concessions. "If one undertakes to carry out maintenance work and does not do it, to carry out new works and does not do them, and then perhaps cashes in billions in dividends, then a problem arises and the state must intervene. We are thinking about this'.
The Piano casa, a happy intuition? 'Actually we have been working on it for a year, I meet with technicians and experts who tell me that the housing market is at a standstill often because of small irregularities inside houses. So it is not a condominium, because we do not want to sanction serious abuses, but I believe that politics should simplify citizens' lives. The text will be in the pre-council of ministers today and tomorrow there will be the decree, 'it will serve to unblock deeds, rents and sales'.
