No official decision has been taken, and the document itself presented by the experts appointed by Minister Danilo Toninelli is only "a preliminary draft", but in the meantime the first – predictable – negative response has arrived on the cost-benefit analysis relating to the Turin-Lyon TAV. the work, already partially built and 40% financed by the European Union, according to the agreements made with Brussels and with France, should be ready by 2030, but could therefore be stopped by the new government, even if the hypothesis still seems distant. First of all because the report of the experts led by prof. Marco Ponti (who has always been openly opposed to the work, like 4 of the remaining 5 members of the commission) is provisional, but also and above all because the final decision would in any case be up to the Government and on this the umpteenth clash between the Movement 5 Stars, hostile to the infrastructure, and the Northern League, more benevolent.
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The documentation was delivered on the afternoon of Wednesday 9 January to the Minister of Infrastructure Danilo Toninelli, but practically at the same time the Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini took to intervene on the matter, caressing the possibility of a referendum consultation on the Turin-Lyon line in case it is rejected by the technicians. “If there was a referendum on the Tav, we certainly couldn't stop it,” said the leader of the League, clearly leaking his orientation. "We have delivered the analysis, I hope that the data will come out and be criticized as soon as possible", Ponti said instead, specifying that he is not a No Tav a priori for ideological reasons and to look only at the numbers: "Today the work the whole costs between 10,5 and 11 billion euros”, even if only a small part, less than 3 billion, paid for by Italy. Assuming that the outcome of the analysis is unfavorable to the continuation of the works, the decision will in any case be of a political nature, as indeed Ponti himself has repeatedly acknowledged: "It's up to politics, I hope it can be expressed quickly". Meanwhile next Saturday, January 12, a new event in Turin organized by the "Si TAV": another signal that by now a large part of civil society is pushing for the completion of the work.
