"The Region of Sardinia is engaged in the front line with the world of the University and with the other islands of Europe to try to stimulate a virtuous path that makes the principle of insularity recently reinserted in the Constitution effective ".
This was stated by the president of the Region Christian Solinas during the conference "The principle of insularity in the new Article 119 of the Constitution" underway at the University of Cagliari.
Going into the specifics of the issue and highlighting the critical issues affecting strategic issues such as transport, goods, energy, closely linked to the island condition, the president highlighted the risk that «the statement of principle does not have consequent and coherent applications practices".
The theme, according to the president, is articulated on two major questions: "There are resources (and fortunately this time gives us enormous resources) with the paradox, however, that we cannot spend them legitimately because often - he continued - we incur the violation of rules on state aid and competition that end up sterilizing policies, appropriations, and therefore the possibility of affirming substantial equality in terms of opportunities. We don't ask for privileges like Isola. We simply ask to be placed on a par with the rest of the mainland , with the rest of European citizens, in order to be able to compete to the fullest of our potential".
Looking at the broader European scenario, therefore at the insular condition "which affects 20 million European inhabitants divided among 13 States, which represent 5% of the European population", Solinas highlighted how "with the recognition by the European Parliament of the resolution Omarjee for the rights of the islands there has been a further enrichment in the path which must be seen as the start of the path and not the point of arrival». A European population, he continued, "which must have recognized a right of citizenship that is not affected in its prerogatives by a condition that objectively determines a state of inequality with respect to the rest of Europe".
Recalling the commitment of the Region in Europe over the past few years, he concluded: «I myself, as president of this Region, recently proposed a document which was signed by the political authorities of the main Mediterranean islands. We have involved Corsica, the Balearic Islands, Rhodes and Crete, in such a way that in the construction of European policies there is a prior reflection and involvement of the island world which can then state what are the critical issues that need to be addressed and resolved".
COSSA – The inclusion of the principle of insularity in article 119 of the Constitution is not enough and "the indifference of the government which is not doing enough is intolerable" to make what is written in the Charter feasible. The president of the special commission for insularity, Michele Cossa , did not mince words to photograph the state of things during his speech at the conference "The principle of insularity in the new article 119 of the Constitution".
"The first months of implementation of the principle of insularity were not exciting - explained Cossa -. None of the important measures adopted by this government has taken the issue of insularity into account in the slightest: there is no hostility, but rather indifference". And the lunge on differentiated autonomy: "I believe it is impossible to speak of differentiated autonomy - he underlined - if the conditions are not created first of all for islands too to be protagonists and not passive spectators, or worse victims, of a calibrated constitutional model on the more developed regions of Italy».
(Unioneonline/D)
