(ANSA) - ROME, MAR 17 - Construction of a bridge between mainland Italy and Sicily across the Strait of Messina will create tens of thousands of jobs and mark the rebirth of the country's steel industry, Minister for Business and Made in Italy Adolfo Urso said on Friday.
    The project "means tens of thousands of direct jobs, but above all it means to some extent the rebirth of the Italian iron and steel industry", Urso said at the Euro-Mediterranean Festival of the Economy (Feuromed) in Naples .
    On Thursday Premier Giorgia Meloni's cabinet approved a decree paving the way for the construction of the bridge, which has been under consideration by several governments but has never gone beyond the planning stage for varoious reasons including cost, safety and environmental concerns and fears of potential Mafia involvement. (ANSA).