The sea “offers our nation opportunities for development and growth” because “Italy is a special nation, both continental and maritime”. The President of the Council of Ministers said this: Georgia Meloniin a video message broadcast in Palermo during the second edition of the Risorsa Mare 2024 Forum “Our head – he added – is a piece of central Europe, while our feet are immersed in the Mediterranean Sea. This makes us a natural bridge between northern and southern Europe, between Europe as a whole, Africa and the Middle East”, Meloni continued.
The Mediterranean Sea “has been at the heart of global cultural and commercial exchanges for thousands of years” and “has now become central again, as a connecting space between the Atlantic and the Indo-Pacific, passing through the Persian Gulf and the Suez Canal,” the Prime Minister said. “This – he stressed – is an enormous advantage. An advantage that we have not always been aware of and that we must know how to exploit to the maximum.”
Italy “can become the strategic hub of energy flows between the Mediterranean, Africa and Europe,” Meloni said. “The Mattei Plan has energy among its pillars” and “wants to carry out strategic connection projects,” he added. Strategic connection projects ranging “from the Elmed electrical interconnection between Italy and Tunisia to the H2 Southern Corridor, for the transport of hydrogen from North Africa to Europe.”
The maritime economy “already gives us great satisfaction: in 2022 the contribution to the GDP was 180 billion euros”, explained the Prime Minister. “But we have the possibility of doing better and better, if we join forces and work strategically, as the government intends to do with the Sea Plan, which it has developed it is not by chance”.
Italy, the president said, “intends to play a leading role in the race for the underwater world.” “If it is true that the Mediterranean has returned to the center of the world and that we are at the center of the Mediterranean, then Italy has an extraordinary opportunity: to become absolutely central again and a protagonist of global dynamics,” he added.
“We have already created the national pole for the underwater dimension and a bill to regulate and regulate this issue is about to reach the Council of Ministers (Cdm),” Meloni finally announced.
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