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Tension eases as compromise reached in Italy over TAV

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epaselect epa06758191 Designated Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte addresses the media after a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinal Palace in Rome, Italy, 23 May 2018. Conte has been given the mandate to become prime minister by President Mattarella, to head the coalition of the two populist parties Five Star Movement (M5S) and League (Lega). EPA-EFE/ETTORE FERRARI

Tension within the Italian government has eased, at least for the moment, after Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte came up with a compromise over whether to continue with the TAV Turin-Lyon high-speed rail project from plunging the executive into crisis.

Deputy Premier and Labour and Industry Minister Luigi Di Maio’s 5-Star Movement (M5S) wants the project ditched but fellow Deputy Premier, Interior Minister and League leader Matteo Salvini insists it should go ahead.

The issue looked set to come to a showdown due to Monday’s deadline for the launch of calls for tenders for three batches of work in relation to the project.

But at the weekend Conte told TELT, the Italian-French company building the TAV tunnel, that the call for tenders could be launched but activity implicating financial commitments from Rome should not begin until Italy has renegotiated the agreement for the project.

 

Via ANSA

Topics Ferrovie dello StatoGiuseppe ConteLyonTAVTELTTorino