To fly or not to fly? We are islanders and isolated: must this be the fate of the Sardinian people? Despite the acknowledgment of the principle of insularity in the Constitution, presented as the solution "to the ills" of the island, in the matter of air and sea transport to and from Sardinia , the total absence of relevant developments has continued for years , unfortunately confirming the persistence of the usually insurmountable geographical "gap".
The European Union, which would appear to have "disappeared" for its part, would seem to have long since found a way to "go beyond" the structural and by now endemic problem of the reference air and sea transport through system policies that are probably indifferent, so to speak, almost tending to obliterate, suffocating them in their application, the cardinal principles contained in their Institutional Treaties. There is always talk of the need to guarantee the Sardinian people's right to mobility by removing the obstacles of a material nature directly deriving from the insular condition, but more often than not it has been done, perhaps, by referring, probably not exhaustively, to the EEC Regulation 3577/92 with reference to maritime transport, and to Regulation 1008/2008, with reference to air transport which, upon closer consideration, would appear not to contain the slightest reference to insularity as a condition of geographical-natural "limit" to be counter .
It would have been, and probably is, preferable to draw the attention of the European institutions to the all-round compliance with articles 170 and 174 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, if only in order to try to fill that reference with valid and effective contents to the much desired insularity and today roughly contained in our Constitutional Charter. Where, in fact, the reference to insularity fails to find its link with the Community principle of economic and social cohesion, what territorial uniformity and/or continuity do we want to expect to talk about?
Let's be clearer: if the goal is to pursue, implementing it on a practical level to be experienced in all its effectiveness, so to speak, the so-called "territorial continuity", appropriately understood as the ability to guarantee transport services suitable for not compromising the position of subjects residing in the context of territories characterized by obvious criticalities, then, it would seem to appear in all its self-evident evidence that , considered in and of itself, in its configuration as an activity of an economic nature, , and therefore such as to be guaranteed to all citizens regardless of their geographical location.
