Toti (Liguria Region) asks Renzi and Delrio to strive because the Third Pass can re-enter in the directory of the projects financed from the EU with the CEF



The new president of the Region Liguria, Giovanni Toti, has sent today to the Matteo Renzi, Prime Minister, and to the minister of Infrastructures and the Transports, Graziano Delrio, a letter in which manifest abashment for the recent exclusion of the Third railway Pass Genoa-Milan from the previewed financings EU from the CEF - Connenting Europe Facilities ( on 29 June 2015).

Emphasizing "to have learned with surprise the lacked financing the work", Toti has evidenced that "the realization of the Third Pass, had with regard to unquestionable data of traffic, constitutes the only instrument of feeding of southern Europe from South through the Italian harbour system (including also the role of the ports of Southern Italy) and the infrastructural system and of retroporti of the North the West in the spirit of regulations 1315 and 1316. So much so that, you are certainly informed some - the letter continues - with a decision of completely opposite sign, own in the past days, Switzerland, in the name of increase requirements and of competitiveness, he has decided the doubling (after single seven years from the inauguration) of some drafts of feeding of the Loetschberg besides the completion of the Gottardo, works with which the Third Pass is set in immediate contiguità. Shortly, without an acceleration of the Third Pass it will be produced, and unfortunately already it is produced, the risk that the corridor the Alps Reno functions only towards south, and that is for feeding the Po plain from the ports of the Europe North, and in its southern draft in order not to connect, vice versa, from Liguria harbour system and of Southern Italy and the North the West of the Country to their markets of the Po Plain and Bavaria".

Toti has specified that "neither the proposal of the Commission as the Third Pass can be justified would constitute "not transboundary" solution with the exception of the participations for the node Turin Lyon and Brenner. I find, in fact - it has specified - than in the within of the priority 1 "Removal of the bottlenecks and realization of the connections lacking" in the list of the projects listed from the EU commission for the right to stand for election to the Member States, a series of work on proposed railway lines from Germany, France, Belgium and Spain has received the maximum of the possible financing, also not being transboundary sections but simple necks of bottle exactly as the Third Pass. They are not clear, shortly, the methodology and the criterion employed from the EU commission in order to justify, in some countries the financing of bottlenecks not transboundary while for Italy it would be limited to us to quite finance only transboundary infrastructures as Brenner and Lyon Turin or of navigation of the Pò (than, oltretutto, goes said with clarity, does not have a clear trasportistico sense as the Reno Alpi corridor in the perspective of I throw again of the traffics of corridor from south)".

Toti therefore has asked Renzi and Delrio that "in occasion of the reunion of the Committee of program organized from the EU commission with the representatives of the Member States on 10 July next to Brussels, the Italian delegate formally proposes a correction of the determination of the Commission so that a choice inspired to the cohesion principles prevails of which to art. the 170, Tfue and to cited regulations 1315 and 1316, and of increase of which to art. the 5, Yours: and so - the president of the Region has explained - the realization of the Third Pass, as instrument of integration of the system of the north the west with its markets beyond the Alps, can proceed in tune with the times that, unfortunately, Switzerland knows to guarantee very better than we in order to put into effect Loetschberg and Gottardo. How much over, oltretutto - it has concluded Toti - in order to avoid chosen of politics of European and national the transports inconsistent, contrary to the reasonableness and disarticulated, exactly, from the European principles of cohesion, of the increase and competitiveness".