ROME (ITALPRESS) – On the eve of a three-day mission to Brussels, Assarmatori welcomes the results of the meeting between the Minister of the Environment and Energy Security, Gilberto Pichetto Fratin, and Executive Vice President for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition, Teresa Ribera, Energy and Housing Commissioner, Dan Jorgensen, and European Commissioner for Climate Action, Wopke Bastian Hoekstra, which took place on the sidelines of the Energy Council. “Minister Pichetto Fratin has hit the nail on the head by calling, with reference to the impact of the ETS on container transhipment, for a level playing field between European and non-European ports,” comments President Stefano Messina. “This is precisely the focus of the issue that we will also bring to the attention of European tables. The risk we are running today is that of a desertification of these activities in Italy, with the consequent loss of jobs and control, also of a geopolitical nature, over crucial maritime transport hubs. We cannot afford this.”
During next week’s mission to the Belgian capital, Assarmatori’s top executives will meet with Commission Vice President Raffaele Fitto, Italian group leaders in the European Parliament, the chairmen of the parliamentary Environment and Transport Committees, including Italy’s Antonio Decaro, and top European Commission officials in areas of interest.
“Among other issues, we will be talking about this very topic,” Messina continued, “and it is certainly a positive thing to have a government that, from Minister Salvini to Deputy Minister Rixi, via Minister Musumeci and Minister Pichetto Fratin himself, has fully understood the risks and distortions of European climate regulation and is working at all levels to remedy them. Italy must put up a united front on such important and strategic issues.”
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