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Bridge disaster in Italy
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Terrible disaster. Condolences to those who have lost loved ones.
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How on Earth can a modern bridge fail so catastrophically?
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Blimey, that is shocking
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It was built in the 60s and apparently concerns had been raised previously.
Utterly tragic.
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It really is just awful!
Story so far seems to be unfolding into something from a crime novel If it's true that it was all built, maintained and operated my the Mafia, could this disaster finally be the event that finally ends their stranglehold on everything?! |
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But the other issue that is coming out of this is the budget restrictions placed on recent Italian Governments (quite a long list! ) by the EU. Italy has a huge budget deficit- the largest in the Eurozone and the EU set low spending targets for the country’s governments which if - as being reported by Bloomberg- shows that maintenance of this bridge and others was compromised then the already strong anti EU feeling in Italy will increase I am sure. They have an anti EU Government coalition in power at the moment who have been pushing for the EU to relax the spending restrictions for Italian infrastructure projects. If a link - however tenuous - can be established then I can see far more than a war of words breaking out between the EU and the Italian people. What a mess ..... Last edited by Darcydog; 16th August 2018 at 07:42.. Reason: Typo |
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Italians have a long history of managing to not pay any or very little income tax. And a similarly long history of public office fraud, and contract quantity and quality dilutions. This produces a situation where the build quality requires very high maintainance costs but there is not enough money to go round. Quarts and pint post. And everyone knows but- buy another expensive suit or cashmere sweater ? Chris S.
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