2024-02-22 18:15:16
Actually, bridges are there to connect people with each other. But at least one bridge in the deep south of Italy has divided supporters and opponents for decades: the bridge over the Strait of Messina. It is intended to connect the Italian mainland with Sicily and its five million inhabitants. The idea has preoccupied Italian politics since the times of Garibaldi in the 19th century. Several prime ministers – Bettino Craxi, Silvio Berlusconi, Romano Prodi – had promised construction and, in the case of Berlusconi, who died in 2023, also presented “definitive construction projects” and laid imaginary foundation stones. More than a billion euros have already been budgeted in this way at taxpayers’ expense. But nothing was ever built.
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