The issue of insularity at the center of Christian Solinas ' speech at the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
The governor spoke by videoconference in a meeting on the future of the Union in island and cohesion policies. He recalled that 20 million people live in the islands, equal to 5% of the European population, and "one cannot ignore this".
"We are not asking for a privilege, but tools to be on the same competitive level as the other regions", Solinas clarified, taking the example of Sardinia where "the Bruno Leoni institute has quantified the cost that it weighs on citizens , a cost due to the small size of the internal market, the distance from the continent and the difficulties in the circulation of goods and people ".
Solinas specified that the Region is committed on various institutional fronts: "The Italian one where we are carrying out a battle for the recognition of insularity in the Constitution as a disadvantage factor, while at the European level we have been asking for the full implementation of Article 174 of the Treaty, which takes the form of a strategy for the Islands ".
" No one must be left behind is a nice motto, we ask that it also applies to us", the conclusion of the Sardinian governor.
(Unioneonline / L)
