The technical-political table aimed at quantifying and compensating the costs deriving from the structural disadvantages caused by the island condition starts today, as envisaged by the agreement signed between the President of the Region Christian Solinas and the Government on public finance in 2019.
"A further result achieved in the confrontation with the State, the result of an incessant commitment, which definitively certifies the duty of the State to remove the inequalities that Sardinian citizens and businesses have had to suffer for decades, bearing higher costs on energy and transport and in other sectors that have determined a compression of opportunities for the entire Sardinia system compared to the rest of the Peninsula ", explains Solinas.
"After the recognition of 1.6 billion euros for infrastructural investments and the various advances already obtained on the compensation of these structural disadvantages - continues the president - the table that is set up today will finally have to define the overall financial commitment of the State, which will translate into in new resources to be invested in favor of citizens and businesses. The island conditions and the periphery have produced an increase in costs over time and created delays and weaknesses in the development process as well as objective limits with respect to the optimal standards of infrastructures and services. Sardinia in recent years it has not pitied favoritism but has strongly claimed the right to have equal development opportunities and access to the international market without the imbalances and gaps accumulated over time with respect to other Italian and European regions ".
"While the usual prophets of doom sing their sterile and distorting song from their muffled benches, my council continues to speak in the language of facts and numbers: we have already achieved exceptional results on the financial front, certified by the Court of Auditors at the headquarters of equalization, starting from the massive reduction of the deficit up to the considerable increase in available resources thanks to the agreements already operational on the redefinition of the contribution to the reorganization of the public finances and the advances obtained to compensate for the higher costs deriving from the permanent disadvantages of the geographical condition of the Isola, which left hundreds of millions of euros in the coffers of the Region ", he concluded.
The councilor for planning and budget, Giuseppe Fasolino, also took part in the meeting that took place in the afternoon via videoconference, in the presence of the undersecretary of the Ministry of Economy Alessandra Sartore.
"With the establishment of the technical table we finally put a firm point on a strategic issue for our island - explained Fasolino -. Sardinia is facing an epochal challenge: we are ready to favor a new phase of development that increases the potential. of our Island, but to do so it is necessary to overcome the structural delays of Sardinia. The compensation of territorial gaps can only pass through projects linked to the geographical condition, and for this reason we have asked that the State share a development project that will give the possibility Sardinians to have the same opportunities as citizens of the rest of Italy ".
(Unioneonline / D)