infrastructure

Italy challenges the EU with Marshall plan from 82 billion

23 August 2018 by admin

Italy challenges the EU with Marshall plan from 82 billion Report Wall Street Italia
After the collapse of the Morandi Bridge, which resulted in the death of at least 43 people, the Conte government has developed a maxi investment plan from 82 billion to renew Italian infrastructure.
Shortly after the collapse of the A10 viaduct in Genoa, the Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini, leader of the League, attributed the responsibility for the catastrophe to the austerity policies imposed by the EU.
From there the idea of the yellow-green government was born: invest all the money necessary to ensure the safety of the roads, of the railways, of schools, of hospitals, regardless of the limits of the budget constraints deemed "crazy" by Salvini and other Euro-skeptical representatives of the majority.
At the same time the EU denied any culpability, recalling that the European Commission had actually assigned 2,5 billions of euros in subsidies to Italy between 2014 and the 2020 within the framework of piano Juncker aimed precisely at financing works to improve infrastructure or create new structures.
An investment project from 82 billions of euros

After the tragedy of Genoa the Minister of Finance Giovanni Tria, which so far has shown itself to be relatively accommodating towards Europe, he mentioned the so-called “golden rule” dear to former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and urged the national authorities and his colleagues to put in place an ambitious plan to renew the country's transport system and infrastructure, without dealing with the Italian budget deficit.
By resorting to the golden rule, the government temporarily authorizes itself to exceed budget constraints, but limited to investment expenses. The Italian coalition wants to take back the project of the previous government led by Prime Minister Gentiloni, which he predicted 82 billions of euros of long-term investments.
But the government's strategy for dealing with these huge expenses is not yet known.
Source: http://www.wallstreetitalia.com/italia-sfida-ue-con-piano-marshall-da-82-miliardi/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Newsletter:+WallStreetItalia&utm_content=23-08-2018+italia-sfida-la-ue-con-piano-marshall-da-82-miliardi+primo-piano

Actuality | CLEAN HANDS

But “State Secret” can mean “Bribes”? (Question to the Prosecutor's Office)

16 August 2018 by admin

Of Maurizio Blondet
Since the Benettons do not supply the State with missiles, advanced armaments, radar – because the motorway concessions were covered by state secrecy? It's a question I would like to ask, as a poor citizen, to judges, prosecutors: what other reason can they imagine for this state secret! – if not hidden exchanges and benefits between the politicians who granted them, and those who enjoy the concession of a very profitable monopoly? I ask sincerely: because I can't imagine anything else. Maybe judges and prosecutors, but yes. They have a reason to find this secret very normal. And for this reason they have not moved despite the fact that the Transport Authority has also repeatedly underlined the need to make these contracts public, that concern a public service and public power. And although in any other country the Ministry of Transport makes the contracts and documents governing the relationship between the State and the managers of the motorway networks available for consultation, as - after all - of any public service granted under concession.

Bribes can be assumed? Under-the-table payments in any form to the concessionaire government party? This is asked naively, given the enormous profits that the company in question derives from the management of the monopoly: almost the 26 percent of turnover net profit, you seem to 1,042 billion . And a gross operating margin that makes the economic journalist Fabio Dragoni say the following dirty joke: “An EBITDA of almost 68% on turnover like that of #Highways credo can only be overcome by drug trafficking". And why Mario Giordano calls them “Vultures”?

*Every year Italians have paid tolls for almost 6 billions of euros, triple what they pay with the Rai license fee. Of this money, only a small part goes to the state: 842 millions.*

Policy | Non-fiction

Luigi Bisignani at IL TEMPO: Matteo's secret plan

18 June 2018 by admin

Image results for the man who whispered to the powerful L’“man who whispers to the powerful” expresses his opinion in one of his usual Sunday letters to the editor of The weather, second newspaper of the capital. The reader will wonder why these sporadic spaces are given to those who are extremely distant from our positions in many respects. Well, after meeting him, the reason is easy to say: l’ “man who whispers to the powerful” can say things, sometimes, more interesting than others. No offense to those who don't whisper anything to anyone… On the contrary…(N.d.R.)
Of Luigi Bisignani
Dear director, Matteo Salvini, like a lion in the savannah, sniffs the air and prepares the next attack to conquer more and more territory. The first moves went better than expected and now that it has placed the immigration front at the center of the European debate, among other things, ridiculing Macron and taking Merkel's applause, can handle “from above” relations with his allies, Forza Italia and Brothers of Italy, who, in order not to be destroyed, will do everything not to turn him against each other. The Movement 5 position, weakened for a number of reasons, first of all the internal struggles between the Grillo-Di Battista-Fico group and the Di Maio-Bonafede-Casaleggio group that have been tearing it apart since they began to smell the scent of power, loses more and more consensus. With a savannah with such an arid landscape, the lion Salvini is secretly preparing his plan B: it will be taken, in one shot, those disappointed by Berlusconi, of Meloni but above all a part of that Grillino electorate who can no longer tolerate that summary justice and facade environmentalism that blocks investments and new infrastructures. Read More

Policy | Non-fiction

Infrastructure, the rumors and the Venetian lead

21 May 2018 by admin

Image results for Venetian foothills Of Marco Milioni

Hello dear readers,

I believe that these rumors that run along the Veneto-Rome axis could interest you. We talk about the infrastructure department…

The rumors come from Rome. As part of the formation of the new government led by the Northern League and Five Star Movement, some Venetian names would have been circulated for the infrastructure department, one of the most strategic. These are names that are not only eligible for the ministerial position, but also for that of undersecretary. The first is that of Silvano Vernizzi, today CEO of Veneto Strade, he was for a long time the extraordinary government commissioner for the Veneto Pedemontana. His choice would be at Lega quota but very well appreciated by Fi circles. Another name that is circulating is that of Massimo Colomban, former councilor for subsidiaries in the municipality of Rome in the M5S council, He has a past in the centre-right and would not be unwelcome to the League. The latest name circulating is that of Massimo Malvestio, well-known lawyer from Treviso, known for being one of Zaia's spin doctors, in his case his name would have been proposed without the interested party being immediately made aware of it. Rumors have already circulated among the M5S base that they would not have liked the three names because they were considered too close to the Venetian infrastructure establishment. In the Region that once belonged to the Serenissima, some more delicate games are being played in the field of great works. Just think of the conclusion of the MOSE, to the Marghera reclamation, to the canals for large ships and the Pedemontana Veneta, the Valdastico Nord and the Orte Mestre not to mention the Tav Brescia, Verona Vicenza, Padova. These are projects opposed by the M5S and instead by the League, in a coalition with the centre-right he has always supported it. As has been explained several times in the national press (from Fatto and Corsera first and foremost) right in Veneto, in terms of infrastructure, a crucial game will be played for the country, within which it will be important to understand how much the lobbies that operate behind the infrastructure sector will be able to make their weight felt on the unborn government.