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Galloni at Messina Conference on Mediterranean Development
20 April 2016
EIRNS — Italian economist Antonino Galloni called for Italy-Sicily and Sicily-African infrastructure in a meeting April 15 at the Messina University. "Italy," Galloni stated, "has the task of lowering the European center of gravity towards the Mediterranean. Only in this way, can we overcome resistance against the Messina Bridge and the bridge between Sicily and Tunisia, which are seen as competition to Rotterdam and Hamburg." Galloni said that it is important that the U.S. government has recognized its mistakes in Libya; however, the neo-con influence in the U.S. administration is still strong enough to block a real solution, which cannot exclude the role of Egypt. "We might see an Anglo-French-American plot to partition Libya, where Italy would get Tripolitania. That is the region where the oil and gas fields managed by [Italian national company] ENI are, but it is also the part more difficult to control because of the presence of Islamic fundamentalism. "Internal contradictions among Anglo-American circles, their original hostility against [Egyptian President] el-Sisi and the attempts to destabilize Egypt are the context in which Italian researcher Giulio Regeni was killed." According to Galloni, the young Regeni, who was pursuing his doctoral degree at Cambridge, was researching and attending trade union circles which had recently been against Egyptian government policies. Italy should also open to Russia and China, Galloni said, which are allied to the regional power chosen by the U.S.A. for the Middle East, i.e., Iran. Galloni proposed to name the Messina Bridge after Sicilian scientist Ettore Majorana, "to indicate that scientific and technological progress unites Africa, Mediterranean, Orient in terms of both human values and physical infrastructures." |