"France today abandoned ambitious plans which would almost have doubled its network of high speed railway lines over the next two decades. A cross-party report, accepted by the government, delayed for at least 17 years ten new railway projects, including new fast lines to Normandy, the Cote d’Azur and Spain. Pharaonic but unfunded Euros 250bn transport scheme promised by the former President Nicolas Sarkozy [...] can simply not be built in the present economic climate, the government has concluded. Instead the Prime Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, has accepted the report’s recommendation that up to Euros 2.4bn a year should be spent on a raft of small projects to remove bottlenecks in the existing road and railway networks." Di solito ai francesi viene rimproverato un congenito senso di grandeur. La loro grandeur adesso consiste nell’aver capito che le grandi opere in questo momento sono assolutamente fuori luogo. L’Italia pezzente invece le rincorre per cucire paillettes sui suoi stracci sbrindellati. (cit.)
Posted on: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 08:54:29 +0000
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