Austria procedure started says Salvini

(ANSA) - ROME, APR 3 - Italy has started an unprecedented procedure with the EU over Austria's blocking the Brenner Pass to heavy goods traffic, Transport Minister and Deputy Premier Matteo Salvini said Wednesday.
    "We have decided for the first time in history to formally activate the procedure envisaged by article 259 of the EU's founding treaty," he said.
    "Austria's unilateral bans are unacceptable and unsustainable because they block the main axis of connection between southern and northern Europe and we are also faced with the multi-year inertia of the European Commission, which is disgraceful after four years waiting for a negotiated solution which has not arrived." He said the first hearing was scheduled for April 8 at the EU.
    (ANSA).