The Draghi government decision to leave the Sicily-Italy connection of the Messina Strait bridge out of the so-called “Recovery Plan” of infrastructure investments has created outrage amongst 7 million Sicilians and Calabrians, who had hoped the Bridge over the Messina Strait would finally be built. Southern Italian leaders are aware that the Sicily-Italy connection is the missing link of the Scandinavian-Mediterranean corridor and a key connection for the Maritime Belt and Road, and have not accepted the stupid decision taken by the Draghi government to appease the M5S Green Fascists.
In reaction to the absurd decision, Nello Musumeci, president of the Sicily regional administration, launched a provocation in a summit with his Calabria counterpart, organized by the “Lettera 150” group of university professors in Catania yesterday. “The Draghi government should tell us what it wants to do with the Bridge over the Strait; we deserve a definitive answer. Enough with eternal delays and [political] ballets, otherwise we are ready to build it by ourselves,” Musumeci said.
His provocation was: “Let’s call it ‘Ulysses,’ because it seems that in Rome if we say Bridge over the Strait it is considered a bad word.” Observers have noticed the resonance with the “Ulysses Corridor” idea launched by Schiller Institute friend, Professor Enzo Siviero, one of the organizers of the summit. (See EIR Jan. 3, 2020: https://larouchepub.com/other/2020/4701-ulysses_corridor_launched_in_a.html)
“We are tired of being considered a colony: We want to become the heart, the logistical platform of the Mediterranean. But it will not be possible unless there is a high-speed connection and you can cross the sea strait in three minutes. There are those who want to keep the Italian system divided in two: a rich and opulent North that produces and a poor and beggarly South that consumes the products of the North,” Musumeci said.
