ROME: Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte appears to have headed off a crisis over the disputed Turin-Lyon high-speed rail project that threatened to split the coalition government, Italian media reported on Sunday.
But while the leader of the League, Interior Minister Matteo Salvini has been a staunch supporter of the project, M5S chief Luigi Di Maio opposes it. Italian papers described Conte's solution as a piece of"legal acrobacy" - it keeps the project and the European funding on track without making a final decision on it.Conte's position has been closer to that taken by M5S. In comments last week, he expressed doubts about the project.
To that end, he said, he had written to French President Emmanuel Macron and to the head of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, to seek meeting in which they could arrive at a joint decision.
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