A dream for Berlusconi and a challenge for Meloni: building a bridge to Sicily

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A fantasy of Mussolini, a dream of Berlusconi and a challenge for Meloni – the longest in the world suspension bridge in the Strait of Messina connecting the Italian mainland with Sicily. It has not been built yet but the contemporary history of this idea serves as a litmus test for what is possible to be counted as NATO spending. The Italian government planned to classify its €13.5bn Sicily bridge as a military asset, but it has abandoned this idea after the US ambasador to NATO decried it as

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