The analysis on the costs / benefits of the TAV was sent by the Italian government as well as to France also to the EU Commission but for the dissemination of its results, the Ministry of Transport, however, seems willing to wait further, raising the tension between the League and the Movement 5 stars. “As vice-president of the Council, which represents the Italians, I don't have the exam. It's quite bizarre… ”thunders Matteo Salvini. "I haven't read it either, but when I wake up I think of the fact that from Rome and Pescara it takes seven hours and not the hole to connect Turin and Lyon", replies Luigi Di Maio, while the opposition asks the Speaker of the Chamber, Roberto Fico, to "assert the prerogatives of Parliament".
Meanwhile Danilo Toninelli, Minister of Transport tries to lower the tone "Matteo must still have a little patience, when the time comes I will personally bring him the analysis in a sealed envelope".
But the leader of the Carroccio does not change his mind - "Italy on major public works must go forward, not block and go back" -, so much so that among the opposition benches there is talk of "open war" between the League and M5S, with Forza Italia inviting Salvini to pull the plug on his ally and the Democratic Party to point the finger at the serious institutional disgrace in Parliament. “But weren't the Italians before the government?” Asks Lara Comi, MEP of Forza Italia. "It is incredible that the 5 Stars prevent citizens from expressing themselves on this infrastructure," says the leader of FdI Giorgia Meloni, commenting on the no of the Municipality of Turin in the referendum requested by her party. Davide Gariglio, Pd deputy in the Transport Commission, accuses Marco Ponti, the professor at the head of the commission that carried out the analysis, of having illustrated the outcome only to M5S deputies. The content of the document, about eighty pages, is not yet known but some rumors speak of costs exceeding the benefits of 7 billion euros, most of which calculated on the basis of the lower excise taxes collected by the state for the reduction of trucks on the roads. As if reducing pollution, thus protecting the environment, didn't count for anything.
The comment of Corrado Alberto, president of Api Torino and spokesman for the Piedmont business system, was harsh. “We are making people laugh at us all over Europe. The government plays with the future of businesses and workers. Politicians of all colors devoid of a sense of the state, and obtusely closed to the future, do not believe that the economic system has a short memory ”.
On the employment opportunities of the same opinion Vincenzo Boccia, president of Confindustria, who during a discussion on the automotive sector organized in Turin recalls that "The high-speed system involves construction sites with the employment of 50 thousand people, this impact analysis may be enough for the country to make a qualitative leap ".