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- Title
Attraversare le Alpi per formare l’Europa: la BEI e il finanziamento dei progetti relativi alle vie di comunicazione alpine (anni 1960 e 1970).
- Authors
Tedeschi, Paolo
- Abstract
The paper shows why, during the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s, European institutions financed the renovation or building of new infrastructures in the Alpine regions that connected Italy to other EEC members. The European Investment Bank (EIB) financed, firstly, the renovation of the railways between Genoa and Modane and between Bolzano/Bozen and Brennero/ Brenner, and secondly, the building of the Bolzano/Bozen-Brennero/Brenner and Aosta-Quincinetto motorways. The European institutions wanted to improve the social and economic cohesion between the EEC countries; the new infrastructure was intended to enable better links to southern Italy (at the time, the most economically ‘backward’ area in the EEC) and to further the development of new factories that had just been established there. At the same time, the new projects improved connections between the Alpine regions and the most developed parts of the EEC, such as Lombardy and Bavaria, as well as to the port of Genoa and southern France. Hence, they enabled both the development of local factories in Alpine regions and the growth of Alpine tourism. In the final analysis, however, the Alpine valleys benefitted more from this investment than southern Italy.
- Subjects
ITALY; INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics); EUROPEAN Economic Community; ECONOMIC development; RAILROAD finance; EXPRESS highways; EXPRESS highway design &; construction; ALPINE regions; ECONOMIC conditions in Italy, 1945-1976; FINANCE; ECONOMIC history
- Publication
Storia e Regione, 2016, Vol 25, Issue 2, p82
- ISSN
1121-0303
- Publication type
Article