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Giorgetti: "Rivedere le concessioni, da telefoni a tv". Berlusconi panics
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Giorgetti: "Rivedere le concessioni, da telefoni a tv". Berlusconi panicsWho knows what Silvio Berlusconi must have thought when he read Giancarlo Giorgetti's words. “Nationalize? I believe it is necessary to seriously discuss what we want to do with the real assets of the State”. The Northern League undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council. interviewed by Corriere della Sera, wants “open discussion on how this is done’ which is’ object of concession can return the greatest good to citizens”. On the possibility’ whether or not to nationalize Italian motorways, Giorgetti states that “at the moment talk about it and’ absolutely premature. In concreto, bisogna verificare l’esito della procedura di annullamento della concessione alla societa’ Highways. At that point you can’ decide with a few more indications. Or you can’ even do another race to see the conditions you can achieve”.
“There are no taboos’ – he adds – The Brenner motorway (A22) sara’ managed in house, in derogation from the European standard. The point e’ evaluate well, case by case. The whole state is not’ buono, but not even completely private. I believe it applies to every good of the State: the real assets of the State are not the properties we always talk about. They are the concessions: how much does the State get from the mineral water we buy a 2 euros per bottle? How much from underground methane or from television concessions? How much from the ether in which the mobile phone signal travels? I believe that the State must carry out periodic evaluations. And then, choose for the best”. “Of course – continues – now we have to think about expiring or expired concessions”. And on the fact that the League had also voted for the 'save Benetton' decree’ of the 2008, the undersecretary comments: “But I don't know… I just discovered today that I wasn't even present at the vote…”.
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Genova: Morandi Bridge
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Morandi Bridge
THE INVESTIGATION
Of Roberto Pecchioli
We didn't want to believe it. The collapse of the Morandi Bridge, that we Genoese, with a touch of colonized provincialism we called it the Brooklyn Bridge, It's a shocking tragedy, for its load of victims, pain, destruction and the terrible consequences that will drag on for years. This is not the time for jackals, but help, of condolence, of help, of collaboration. However, one cannot remain silent, keep a lid on anger over another sinisterly Italian tragedy: a work of that importance cannot collapse after just one day 50 years. For the writer there is something personal, almost intimately in the pain of these hours. Children, we participated in 1967 at the inauguration of the bridge with all the school groups of Genoa. Equipped with a tricolor flag, stationed in front of the stage, we followed the ceremony, we saw with the wonder of age the president of the republic Giuseppe Saragat surrounded by men in full uniform and the imposing figure of the great cardinal Siri, historic archbishop of the city.
We have crossed that very long bridge thousands of times, seventy meters above the valley of the Polcevera stream full of council houses and industrial warehouses of the former Superba, every day for decades we saw and touched it on our way to work. It's no longer there and it's someone's fault. They talk about lightning, of an intense storm and structural failure. Let's wait to make judgements, but on the morning of the eve of the August bank holiday it just rained. No floods, from the years 70 we remember at least six, devastating, in the city of Genoa. We don't know how many lightning strikes have struck engineer Morandi's artifact in half a century (few knew that the work was named after him), nor how much rain has wetted the imposing structures since then. We don't accept, we will never recognize the hasty justification of these hours as valid. It will be Bar Sport indifference, but we know that Roman bridges have been standing for two millennia, and we don't believe in the inability of designers. But, in recent decades there have been many collapses, like tragedies due to neglect, to ignorance, to widespread corruption. Read More

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