“There is a dramatic lack of resources: we must therefore decide and use common sense in choosing what is a priority e what connects us to the rest of Europe“. This is the message launched today by the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport and Economic Development, Corrado Passera, during a hearing in the Transport Committee in the Chamber.
“An optimal mobility solution would come fromintegration of various media – continued Passera – and by the optimal use of every means, instead Italy is characterized by disjointed initiatives”. The best way to improve the Italian situation, according to the minister, passes through a dense series of liberalizations: "We need to build a single European context in all sectors, especially in transport and create spaces for common activity and common competition".
For airport infrastructuremoreover, "one can no longer go forward with the philosophy of an airport in each province without having adequately connected all the logistics with ports, airports and railways connected together and not in parallel, as happens now, with the negative results that today we see. We must ensure that we have airports, even a few, but large centers that can keep Italy connected to the rest of the world".
Furthermore, during the hearing, Passera returned to the thorny issue of frequencies, on which controversy has flared up in recent days: “We are investigating the matter. There have been very advantageous transfers of important frequencies – admitted the minister -, there is work in progress still to be done both in terms of reorganization and optimization”.
In the Tlc sector “there are open issues where we will have to give answers shortly, on the Rai world and on the subject of license fees. There are issues that have opened up on the 'beauty contest' that we are facing and deepening. Telecommunications are an area of great importance for the growth of the country. We must accelerate on issues such as the digital agenda, new generation networks and the digital divide by recovering unspent resources".
