I too am convinced that the outcome of the deliberations of the Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism is the right solution, unlike that presented to us by the Council, and it is a good solution precisely because it reconciles two things which are difficult to reconcile: on the one hand, respect for and enhancement and stepping up of all the efforts to preserve the
environment on both sides of the Alps – for there is an Italian side of the Alps as well as an Austrian side – and, on the other, respect for one of the fundamental principles of the European Union, if we really do believe in a European Union, in other words the intern
al market, ...[+++] the free movement of persons and goods, which are the minimum conditions necessary if there is to be a community of people as well as a community of economic principles.