(EIR Strategic Alert) - The five Tunisians landed on Lampedusa in the second week of February are not the beginning of what will surely become an "exodus of biblical proportions," as stated by the former prefect of Rome, Achille Serra, if not completely abandon economic policy of globalization and development programs being launched urgently € -African. Minister Frattini's good to talk about the need for a "Marshall Plan", but in the euro system will these words written on sand.
The situation has been dramatically described by a delegation from the Tunisian government came to Rome on February 17. The Minister of Industry and Technology Afif Chelbi has called "ridiculous" the EU offer of 17 million as an advance of 258 million already pledged through 2013. Tenders "Demonstrates that [the EU] did not understand the scope of historical events taking place in the south of the Mediterranean", has denounced Chelbi, adding: "When Catherine Ashton spoke of 17 million, the Minister thought he had misunderstood and asked: 'Millions or billions?.' Once again the EU is not up to the task of confronting the region. "
financier Tarak Ben Ammar, who is part of the "Committee of Wise Men" that accompanies the constitutional reform in Tunisia, was even harsher: "What Europe has provided in aid to Tunisia is a tip, almost an insult . It takes at least 10 billion to rebuild six months in tourism, economy, labor the country. "To Ben Ammar is political will," Oh said that Europe wants to develop the North Africa in order not to get people in their own land or not will be in 5000, but in 500 000 to arrive on its shores " .
If the European nations (and we speak intentionally nations and non-EU) genuinely want to help Tunisia and other North African countries, there are some projects to start immediately, as part of an approach to be true development, namely the development of productive infrastructure in those countries that make real sense. It takes an integrated approach to energy infrastructure, water and transport. It starts with the design of the reclamation of the Shatt, muddy depressions in Tunisia and Algeria, which may become agro-industrial centers. Then there is the project, the Italian tunnel between Tunisia and Sicily, which would create a real euro-land bridge Asia-Africa. The tunnel was presented for the first time to an international conference of the Schiller Institute in Kiedrich, Germany, in 2007 (here: http://www.movisol.org/07news169.htm ).
L ' EIR spoke with the author, Eng. Peter La Mendola, who led a team of ENEA. The tunnel would give a far greater importance to the stable connection between Messina and Reggio Calabria, Italian regional infrastructure, making it no longer but the ring intercontinental infrastructure. It would create a rail corridor over 2500 km between Tunis and Berlin, which are connected to the Eurasian east-west corridor. The project would create ten thousand jobs in Tunisia, providing an important stabilizer in terms of migration. The tunnel, freight-only, would be composed of several sections as long as 60 km each, separated by four artificial islands built with the excavated material. The work could begin immediately after the completion of a geological prospecting, which usually would take four years but which, if carried to ENI, it would be much faster since the Italian agency already collected data on the entire area as part of its research of hydrocarbons. A Once done, prospecting, and marine platforms erected without reaching the "moles" for drilling, we proceed at a speed of 1.5 km per day. This means that in 60 months, the tunnel is dug.
Italy's interest to move without waiting for blessings from above, because it is a development project that extends to the south, in terms of rail, energy, employment, etc.. At a time when Economy Minister Tremonti task demonstrate trips to the South to witness the abysmal lack of infrastructure, and the complaint in the Council of Ministers of the gap in productivity from north to south, it must move boldly to implement policies which reflect the the South, North African neighbors and our national security.
ENEA has developed other ideas as part of its "Progettoafrica" \u200b\u200bon the reclamation of the Sahara Desert, as in the case of the Shatt El Djerid Tunisia or the New Valley in Egypt, in the same direction of the proposal Paumier-Rouda presented by the LaRouche movement in France. These projects are key to developing agro-industrial and positive climate for change, yes, man-made.
Water projects in North Africa Transaqua accompany the project to revitalize the Lake Chad and the greening of the Sahel region, in a general vision of pan-African infrastructure development. If these projects will not be implemented with urgency, then we will see the fire soon spread to North Africa to Europe. The shift, however, is not possible without replacing the current bankrupt financial system with a credit system based on the principles of Glass-Steagall, as LaRouche does not tire of repeating.
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