More than 60 French politicians
including MPs, Senators and regional governors on Wednesday
appealed to French President Emmanuel Macron to "guarantee" the
Turin-Lyon high-speed rail (TAV) line which the future Italian
government has vowed to revise or stop.
The appeal called the project "a major work site for the
future" and called for it to be saved "in the face of political
uncertainties in Italy".
The appeal, contained in a missive sent to the presidential
Elysée palace, was coordinated by the Comité pour la Transalpine
Lyon-Turin, chaired by Jacques Gounon.
"The Turin-Lyon link," the 63 signatories said, "contains at
the same time a vision of Europe, an international economic
ambition for France, a powerful aspiration for ecological
transition and a strategy of development of the territory for
the whole south of the continent."
They said "we keenly hope that (Macron) will be a guarantor
of the dynamic of this great future worksite, in a context of
political uncertainties in Italy".
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