(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 22 - Deputy Premier and Transport and
Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini said Monday that he is
hopeful the worksites for the project to build a bridge across
the Strait of Messina to connect Sicily to the Italian mainland
can be opened by the end of the year.
"Europe is funding part of the design of the railway for the
Strait Bridge," Salvini said at the inauguratuion of two new
metro stations in Catania.
"The objective remains to finish the project and open the
construction sites by the end of this year.
"The fact that the European Union is putting tens of millions of
euro into it means that like us and like many Sicilians, it
believes in the project". (ANSA).
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