This is not the usual victim attitude, nor the usual whimpering circumstance that almost always, for several years, has accompanied the political / legal debate on Sardinian (dis) territorial continuity, the latter shameful (for their social implications ) and embarrassing vicissitudes filled the pages of local newspapers. Beyond any reference to clichés as small on the conceptual level as useless on the practical-juridical one to be used, more often than not, in a distorting and mystifying way by those who would like to "distract" the responsibilities to them directly elsewhere connected, it would be useful to address the age-old question by analyzing it under a double order of circumstances, one of a conceptual and meta-juridical character, the other of a more purely technical-practical profile.
To begin with, the only certain fact, at least theoretically, seems to be the existence of an indisputable axiom, of a dogma if you like, which can be subsumed in the statement of principle that "the reachability of a destination through a system of Affordable and reliable transport is an integral part of that destination's competitiveness ”(see Ritchie and Crouch - The competitive Destination: a Sustainable Tourism Perspective). Below, then, another and different profile, given the admitted and incontrovertible contribution that an island like Sardinia could offer to the growth of the European Union's heritage for its naturalistic, agricultural and cultural resources, it would even be "criminal" to continue to neglect, perhaps only for pure and simple inability to fully implement it, that the European Parliament, with its Resolution (2015 / 3014rsp) on the island condition, has already expressly recognized the pressing need to enhance transport services and the use of funds structural to improve the situation of island regions both in terms of economic growth and in terms of sustainable development.
But then, if this is the state of the art, the question can only be posed in terms of the consequent spontaneity: what is missing, or what is missing, in the Region of Sardinia, and in particular in its Regional Council, to pass from the condition of " power "to that of" act "? How, the Region of Sardinia, could and should have acted, or could and should act, also on the basis of that Resolution, hailed by all as an unprecedented achievement, so that the disadvantages of insularity could become, or become, advantages on the plan of economic growth? But above all, translated in a nutshell: what measures have been, and / or have not been, approved for the use of European regional development funds in relation to the island condition? What should have been, and should still be, the role of the Region of Sardinia, in the economy of the current debate and in the dialogical interface with the institutions concerned?
