The Tav and the scammers who discredit Italy

No bans but only notices, and moreover revocable, for the Table. Half a step forward and two steps back but not entirely so as not to lose European funds and not be left with the match in hand. What a desolating spectacle is taking place in these hours on the Tav. “Banana Republic stuff”, sarcastically comments the Governor of Piedmont, Chiamparino, always YES Table. vision, passion and concreteness but dry technical solution of political controversies, a quibble to dribble complicated decisions is always found.

Yes, a quibble like that of notices instead of calls for tenders for the work that remains to be done to complete the Tav is always found. But not at no cost. The Northern League leader, Matteo Salvini who, sensing how the Tav soap opera would end because the grillini have neither the strength to break the majority nor to backtrack on the Tav, cunningly took the first plane to Milan and let the Five bask Stars in their contradictions. But he got his general judgment wrong on the unfortunate affair. Perhaps the Northern League leader wanted to be generous and did not want to rage on the grillini but it is not at all true that for now the Tav case is closed - as he declared yesterday - without winners or losers.

It is true that on the Tav you don't see any winners but there is one loser and how it is the whole country. The indecorous scene with which the Five Stars are hiding their heads in the sand to evade a reality that nails them to their responsibilities is making the whole world laugh. Beyond the very merit of a work already underway that connects Italy to Europe and Asia and beyond the costs of not doing anything, here we are playing with fire. We have never seen that a country which has signed 5 international treaties on the TAV which have involved 8 governments and which has carried out 7 cost-benefit analyses, at the last mile I hesitated and clambered over the glass so as not to dismiss the fairy tales that a government force has been telling for years, even if they risk costing Italy as a whole dearly, very dearly and not only in economic terms.

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From this story the government men all come out very badly but if from the Toninellis and the Di Maios it was illusory to expect a shred of self-criticism and intellectual courage, the prime minister's professional profile could suggest that he was dedicating his time not to looking for quibbles and shortcuts to cover up the weakness of the Five Stars but reasons for rational reflection to induce the incoherent grillina company to more sensible reasoning. It wasn't and it isn't like this and this is before everyone's eyes.

Conte and the grillini come out with broken bones from the telenovela Tav but Salvini doesn't come out well either, because it is not enough to say in favor of completing the infrastructure railway if not all the consequences are drawn from it. After all, a pronouncement from Parliament would be enough - as undersecretary Giorgetti wisely proposed - to resolve the case once and for all, but Salvini will hardly ask because he is the first to know that, if the Chambers were called to decide on the Tav, the majority it would definitely fall apart and he thinks it would be more electorally convenient for him not to take responsibility for the crisis.

Yet, today as today, a government crisis would not be the end of the world and neither would recourse to the polls if the dispute over the Tav, which goes far beyond the case itself and exposes the inadequacy of the current governing classshouldn't recompose. Better to seek the opinion of the people than to witness the collapse of the country's credibility and wait for the clouds that are gathering menacingly over our economy to turn into a storm.