Important decisions at the Council of Ministers and at CIPE: many things have been approved, most of which were about infrastructure that I brought to the discussion.
In contrast to what is said, we had already found the funds needed to do this work like the foot-of-the-mountains in Lombardy, the BreBeMi, the Asti-Cuneo, the stretch of railway Treviglio-Brescia and today a further two concessions have been approved: the TiBre and the Brescia-Padua.
There’s already a stretch of the Tirreno-Brennero motorway that goes as far as Parma but from there what is missing is the connection to the A22, the Autobrennero. The concession for this has been approved today.
Remember that “approved” means that the finance has already been found for this work, which obviously needs both the time for construction and the company that is to take on the concession.
Even the Brescia-Padua exists already but the beginning and end stretches are missing. The stretch in val Trompia is missing. This is served right now by tiny roads. What was missing, and this arrived today, was the approval for some of the parcels of the Val D’Astico south. For the stretch of the Val D’Astico north, the evaluation of the need for this work has been left up to the regions, who are deciding whether or not to go ahead with it.
We have even financed with 570 million euro, the completion of the C metro line in Rome. We have launched the plan for the railway work for the next five years starting with this year.
The Palermo node, the first stretch of the Naples-Foggia-Bari and a long list of work for which the regulatory and project phases have been approved and for which the financing will be approved on 28 June with the DPEF (Economic-Financial Programme Document).
Another really important decision by the Council of Ministers is the decree to liberalise the energy market. The citizens can now choose their energy operator, without a monopoly that imposes quality and prices for the service. More than one supplier in competition, thus, but with a base level for the minimum service, compatible with energy needs and the economic possibilities of all the citizens.
The positive day, however, was sullied by the umpteenth attack coming from the Centre Left , even from certain leaders, against the Milan prosecutors.
They are accusing the magistrates of illegal actions and intercepts and the journalists of illegal publication of these. Basically they are accusing them of carrying out a political battle. They are all words already pronounced by Berlusconi, when he was being investigated, to which the response was to stop criminalizing the magistrates because they and their colleagues have the responsibility to do this.
The guilt is never of the ones investigating but of who is committing crimes. The problem is not the intercept that is published but to know whether the content, that is right for the public to know about, is true or false.
Once more, when the facts relate to directors of the Centre Left, these behave just like Berlusconi and they accuse the Milan Prosecutors.
Someone has said: “it seems that we are going back to 1992. In what way? In 1992 a positive thing happened! There were magistrates discovering crimes committed by politicians and entrepreneurs. They were things that had happened leading up to 1992 that were scandalous: kick-backs, illegal financing, corruption, corruption of public officials, abuse of public office, and misappropriation. The guilt in 1992 was associated with those who committed the crimes not those who searched them out.
Today they are discovering other crafty ones and other political sponsors even in the Centre Left and once more they want to put the blame on the magistrates.
Is it possible that they can’t listen to the will of the citizens? We have done many positive things, today, but tomorrow in the newspapers there’ll only be a discussion of the usual clan of political notables who, given the common interests on the Left and on the Right, will approve a law to prevent the publication and execution of telephone intercepts. It’s as though, once an illness has been discovered, instead of treating it, you eliminate the doctor. That doesn’t stand up.
Let us do our duty for the country and let’s allow the magistrates to do their duty.”