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Salvini says TAV must go on, M5S says he's 'lying' (5)

Salvini says TAV must go on, M5S says he's 'lying' (5)

Spending review cd save 1 bn says interior minister on visit

Rome, 01 February 2019, 16:03

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League leader, Deputy Premier and Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said Friday the high-speed rail (TAV) line between Turin and Lyon must go on, adding that a spending review could save up to one billion euros on the controversial project.
    Meanwhile the League's senior government partner, the anti-establishment 5-Star Movement (M5S), accused Salvini of "lying" about how much progress had been made on the key tunnel north of Turin. Salvini said on his arrival at the TAV building site at the tunnel at Chiomonte: "if going back costs as much as going forward, I'm for going forward".
    He said "there are many tunnels" involved in the pan-European project, and "we would be the only ones who would be stopping".
    He said it was preferable to move goods and people by rail than by road and said a revision of the project could save one billion euros.
    There was tension between 'No-TAV' protesters and police guarding the tunnel site.
    Anti-migrant Euroskeptic League leader Salvini is in favour of completing the TAV while cutting some "excessive expenditure" while M5S leader Luigi Di Maio is against going on with the project.
    Di Maio said Friday he would not visit the Chiomonte site because, allegedly, "not even a centimetre of tunnel has been dug there".
    The M5S, and its transport minister, Danilo Toninelli, have insisted on carrying out a cost/benefit analysis which, according to M5S sources, is set to come out against completing the project.
    Salvini has done his own sums and says the failure to complete it will mean losing billions of euros.
    At the same time as Salvini's visit to Chiomonte, French Transport Minister Elisabeth Borne visited the TAV work site across the border in France, at Saint-Martin-La-Porte.
    She called the TAV "an important project.
    "France has confirmed its commitment to the project and the respect of the accords signed between our two countries," she said.
    The line must be completed, Borne made clear.
    She said France's position on the completion of the project was "clear".
    Visiting the work site in Savoy, she recalled the international treaty ratified during the last Franco-Italian summit, when the two countries underscored their commitment to completing the project.
    "To realise this Franco-Italian project, there must be two of us", Borne said.
    But M5S Foreign Undersecretary Manlio Di Stefano said League leader Salvini is lying about the tunnel being built at Chiomonte.
    "Salvini didn't go to see the TAV worksite but only a 5 metre hole," said Di Stefano.
    "You mustn't spout electoral propaganda on this issue but only tell the Italians the truth.".
    "There is no work in progress...We want to invest citizens' money to realise works useful to all, works that are useful to citizens every day".
    Di Stefano called for an end to "chat" on the TAV, saying it would never be completed.
    "Enough useless chatter on a useless work, which won't be done. Full stop." he said.
    ""let's think about bridges, roads, the banks of rivers our country urgently needs. #NoTav #M5S".
    Meanwhile Premier Giuseppe Conte announced that the government would "unblock building sites" on major infrastructure projects, calling the move "a Pact on work sites".
    This pact, he said, would "free up and speed up the realisation of infrastructures all over Italy".
   

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