No more new town, as it was for L'Aquila. After the earthquake that hit central Italy, "the mayors will decide, and I believe that everyone will prefer to rebuild their country where it was, not to abandon the old one to build a new one elsewhere". This was stated by the Minister of Infrastructure, Graziano Delrio, in an interview with Il Corriere della Sera.
The problem is that the reconstruction takes longer than in the new towns: "The theme is to minimize the duration of the encampments - added Delrio - and to restart services immediately, starting with the schools: I'm not saying from day one, but immediately afterwards the children of the affected countries will have to go back to school".
The minister then recalled how “the Emilia Romagna model worked well, where the commissioner was the president of the Region. The choices must be agreed with the territory, made together and not descended from above. Otherwise they don't work."
As for the damage caused by the earthquake, there are still no official estimates: “It will take several days – explained Delrio -. The survey must be done house by house, infrastructure by infrastructure”.
Delrio then said that it would be difficult to spend the 14 billion planned for L'Aquila, because “the municipalities affected at the time had 140 inhabitants. This time we are only a few thousand”. In any case, Italy assumes that the money spent for the emergency and reconstruction will not be counted in the 3% deficit ceiling and according to the minister "it would be important that the money we will spend to prevent these tragedies also remain outside ”.
