Ponte sull’Stetto, Salini: “Work can start tomorrow too”

“We have covered a thousand kilometers of bridges in our entrepreneurial history, including two single-span bridges among the 10 largest in the world. The one on the Strait can be done. We were doing it, but they stopped us. The difference between countries that are growing and those that are floundering is also in the ability to create great works, to create perspectives and to be attractive ».

SALINI: “WE ARE READY”

This was stated by the CEO of Webuild, Pietro Salini, during a meeting in Catania with the presidents of the Sicilian Regions, Nello Musumeci, and Calabria, Nino Spirlì.
«Social responsibility – he continued – is important to remember that in Catania I asked what the boys do here, I was answered nothing. Imagining young people without a future is terrible, what has our generation done for them? This is why I feel involved in this operation. It is a challenge that together as Italians we must face and win. We must push for the future of the young people of Sicily and Calabria, we owe it to them. The structure – he observed – would create 20 thousand jobs. We are ready to go, even tomorrow. The project has overcome a lot of obstacles, overcoming all the required bureaucratic steps ».

«We want to become the heart of the Mediterranean – added the president of the Sicilian Region, Nello Musumeci -. The natural platform of the ships that cross it. It is not possible to become one if there is no high speed. There can be no high speed if you do not cross the Strait of Messina in three minutes. This is the appeal I make to the government: we are tired of being considered marginal with respect to the European continent ”.

MUSUMECI: “WITHOUT BRIDGE NO HIGH SPEED”
“For people in good faith – he added speaking of the realization of the work – the problems are technical, for those in bad faith, which are many in the politics of Roman palaces and beyond, it is the desire to keep the Italian system divided into two : a rich and opulent North, which produces, and a poor South which trudges and consumes the products of the North. Let’s finish with this farce. Ulysses is a dispute called the future. The Mediterranean is a sea that unites, where goods pass. And where the goods do not pass the armies pass. We are entitled to a definitive answer ».
“Others don’t have our courage, they probably didn’t believe us. Our two regions are Europe, and Europe has the obligation to create Ulysses. The new world where the fate of the rest of the planet is decided is Asia, the new West of development and the economy. And entry into Europe passes from here, after the Suez Canal »explained the governor of Calabria, Nino Spirlì – We are accused of crime – he added – but have you ever heard of the Chinese, Nigerian and Eastern mafia? They weren’t born in Palermo or Catanzaro. Thats enough”.