The G7 Transport Ministerial Meeting  has ended with the adoption of the traditional Joint  on the Social Value of Infrastructures.

The document underlines the investment in high-quality and innovative Infrastructure as a key strategy to sustain economic growth, recognizing its social role to contribute to social well-being, to facilitate access to health and education services and to employment opportunities. Well-planned investments in infrastructures can trigger economic, environmental and social benefits.

June, 22nd 2017 - “Rediscovering the social value of infrastructures in the name of sustainability is the theme we intend to address  in this meeting, the first  under Italian Presidency”,  said the Italian Ministry for Infrastructures and Transports, Graziano Delrio during his opening speech of G7 Transport  Ministers meeting, now ongoing in the Italian city of Cagliari in Sardinia.

DELRIO: THE RIGHT TO MOBILITY, A SOCIAL GOOD FOR OUR DEMOCRACIES

(Accreditation will close on Saturday, 18 July) 

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G7 Trasporti  - ITA

Italy assumed the Presidency of the G7 Transport Ministers’ Meeting on the 1^st of January 2017, which brings together the seven Countries with the most advanced economies in the world: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States.

5 May 2017 – Italy-Switzerland Bilateral Meeting on Infrastructures and Transport, was held at the premises of the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport, at Porta Pia, in Rome,   this afternoon, between Minister Graziano Delrio and the President of the Swiss Confederation, Doris Leuthard.

20 April 2017 – The G7 Transport Experts Meeting was held today in Rome, at the premises of the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport ,  in preparation of the G7 Transport Ministers Meeting which will take place in Cagliari.

Proposing Italy as a gateway to Europe for freight transport and the cruises coming from Asia, as well as reaffirming its strategic role as interconnection and logistics point between the Eastern and the Western World

3 March 2017 – With  the “Nice To Meet You G7”event,  starts the program of preparatory meetings  for “the G7 Transport Summit” of the Ministry of Infrastructures and Transport, in preparation of the G7 Transport Ministers Meeting under the Italian Presidency, which will be held in Cagliari, Sardinia, on 21 and 22 June 2017, with the participation of  the European Commissioner, Violeta Bulc, as well as the Transport Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom, Usa and Italy.  

29 March 2017 -  The Minister of Infrastructures and Transport, Graziano Delrio, has participated in the European Conference of Transport Ministers, organized in cooperation with the Maltese Presidency, in order to take stock of the situation on Road Safety and Maritime Transport.