Many are angry with the airlines, as if they were solely responsible for the territorial continuity disaster. In reality, the lords of the skies, in Sardinia, have always tried to speculate with both hands, with monopolies and blackmail of all kinds. Territorial continuity served for this, to stop speculation and guarantee an inalienable right, that of mobility in an island region. The history of the last twenty years is an encyclopaedia of systematic raids by airlines on state and regional buildings to try to prevent in any way the protection of the public air connection service to and from Sardinia. Never, however, had there been a conflict of interest like the one unleashed in the last territorial continuity, the one that decimated frequencies and flights in an instant, canceling the most important conquest of recent years, the single tariff for "residents" and "non-residents".
Constitution violated
The first serious mistake was to give in on such a decisive issue as that of the single tariff, making the most important recognition of the insular principle disappear, conquered when the Constitution did not make any reference to it. Absurdly, the Region and the State, the decree is adopted by the Minister of Infrastructure on the proposal of the President of the Regional Council, yielded on the most important point when the Parliament recognized the right of Sardinia to cancel the insular differences. But who defended that principle in the community, if there was any need to defend it, given that it had been in force since 2013 without anyone ever raising remarks? It has been said that there would be emails from European Union officials with which objections would be raised. In the public administration, especially in the face of a right recognized by the Constitution, e-mails are waste paper, they count for nothing.
Europe's misstep
The procedure is clear: the Region adopts its territorial continuity, the Minister validates it and sends it to Brussels. All this with formal steps: resolutions and decrees. The European Commission, the Transport Commissioner, can then open negotiations with the State and the Region. However, if Europe should harm the rights of Sardinia and the Sardinians, there are courts, from the first to the last, to be invoked to defend the right on equal terms between territories and citizens. In reality, none of this ever happened.
