Transport and Industry Minister
Danilo Toninelli on Thursday hit back at European Transport
Commissioner Violeta Bulc for suggesting that the Italian
government had promised to press ahead with the controversial
Lyon-Turin TAV high-speed rail link.
Bulc said that she had "spoken to the new Italian minister a
couple of times and he assured me that I should not worry
because Italy will honour the commitments made".
This prompted Toninelli, a member of the 5-Star Movement
(M5S), to reply that he had "always spoken by referring to the
cost-benefit analysis taking place on the Turin-Lyon (project)
and the government contract, which foresees the whole project
being reconsidered".
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