Among the many gaffes and the thousand lives of Danilo Toninelli – from carabiniere to insurance agent, from deputy to minister and then back to insurance agent – he must also be recognized for the gift of foresight. In fact, for anticipating the times. Seven years, nine months, and nineteen days ago, as Minister of Transport, he unknowingly transported us into the future by talking about the Brenner tunnel.
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In a loud tone, on the sidelines of a meeting with EU Commissioner Violeta Bulc, he asked: “Do you know how many Italian goods, how many Italian entrepreneurs still mainly use road transport through the Brenner tunnel?” Too bad the Brenner tunnel did not yet exist. Toninelli had confused it with the pass, moreover ignoring that the tunnel project was exclusively for rail. A colossal blunder by the Five Star Movement member that bounced around for weeks. Yesterday came the news that Austria and Italy have been united thanks to the gallery under the Brenner Pass.
In these days of summer departures, we imagine the former Minister of Transport traveling to Sicily who, to avoid queues at the Villa San Giovanni ferries, is already speeding on the Messina bridge in his car…
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