Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s controversial plan to build a €13.5bn bridge to Sicily has run into resistance from Italy’s Court of Auditors, which expressed “doubts about the legitimacy” of a decision to resurrect the decades-old project without a fresh tender.
The government in August approved the revival of an old abandoned plan for the 3.3km suspension bridge, insisting it was a national security imperative.
However, the auditors court last week challenged the decision to award the main €10.6bn contract to a consortium led by a Rome-based construction company, Webuild, without any new competitive bidding process, according to an internal interim assessment seen by the Financial Times.
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