Dec. 18 (EIRNS ) - EIR Strategic Alert co-editor Claudio Celani joined a large group of professors, engineers, economists, journalists and politicians who drafted a book aimed at unblocking government action in favor of infrastructural development of Southern Italy, centered around the indispensable connection between Sicily and the Italian mainland through the famous Messina bridge. The book, entitled “Will The Mezzogiorno Be Betrayed?,” was initiated by Schiller Institute friends Enzo Siviero and Giovanni Mollica and includes articles by Sicily regional President Nello Musumeci, Calabria regional President Roberto Occhiuto, Messina mayor Cateno De Luca plus 25 more authors who develop several aspects of a plan for the development of Mezzogiorno.
The starting point is that originally, the funds the Italian government will borrow and receive as grants from the EU would be especially dedicated to fill the infrastructural gap between North and South. However, this intention, recommended also by the EU Commission, was not respected as the decision not to include the Messina Bridge in the Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) soon showed.
