In recent days, according to what has been learned from the press, the work of the Territorial Cohesion and Budget Commission of the European Union of the Committee of the Regions took place and Christian Solinas, as president of the Sardinia Region and full member, would have heard approve some of his amendments on the implementation of the principle of insularity.
Such amendments would have the object of "strengthening" the "territorial dimension of cohesion policy, in favor of greater convergence of territories which would allow the permanent structural disadvantages linked to insularity to be overcome". And among the objectives to be achieved there would be the adoption, by the European Commission, of a strategy dedicated to the Islands to be implemented through a systematic collection of aggregate territorial data which could constitute a prodromal factor for a specific approach for the so-called island regions.
Well. Apart from the consideration that, even if we want to ignore the initiatives undertaken even by this Regional Government, for years now we have been trying to pursue the right "alignment" in terms of rights and, if I may say so, among the European island regions, nothing question: if the initiative, in fact, and let's be clear on the point, manages to materialize in concrete and decisive interventions, i.e. suitable to eliminate any critical issues due to the importance that the cohesion policies of the European Union would be directed, at least on a paper level, both to reduce development disparities between the regions of the Member States and to strengthen the economic, social and territorial cohesion useful for guaranteeing sustainable and, as much as possible, inclusive growth.
And if it is true, as it is true, that such a "union" political direction must pay special attention to all those situations which present serious and permanent natural and demographic disadvantages, such as the Sardinian reality, however, to date, in the European context, and probably not only in that, there seems to have been a lack, on a practical level, of some initiative potentially and effectively aimed at bridging the different reasons for disadvantage. It would probably be necessary, even before it is appropriate, to involve Parliament, precisely on a proactive level, and in an even more incisive manner, since the latter, contrary to what one would probably be led to believe, is called upon to play a rather active and incisive precisely in supporting the reasons for strengthening the economic, social and territorial cohesion of the European Union, if only we consider that all the legislation concerning the cohesion policy itself and the Structural Funds would be, as in fact it is, prepared, and even before that elaborated , through the ordinary legislative procedure, in the context of which the powers of the Parliament (and this is anything but to be underestimated) are made equal to those of the Council, with every relevant consequence on the decision-making level.
