Tunisia-Sicily Tunnel
I’ve come across this report. It’s a feasibility study for a 140-km long tunnel that should link Tunisia to Sicily.
The project is not sci-fi; the report says that the tunnel can actually be completed in 11 years at a reasonable cost if sufficient private sector funds are mobilised. The tunnel would span four artificial islands; so it won’t go deep below sea level like the one that crosses the English channel.
One thing is quite clear to me: The EU will need us who live on the other side of the Mediterranean in 15 or 20 years from now- when the median age of its population will be 55; when China will be the first economy in the world; and when Russia will have recovered its bargaining power on energy and security issues. Europeans will definitely start looking southward for larger markets and safer ways of gaining energy supply.
I think Tunisians should lobby very hard for this project to become reality. If we decide to stay in the so-called Union for the Mediterranean, we have to at least make our membership worthwhile by pressing ahead for a Euro-African tunnel, and a fortiori for the free movement of people between the two shores. The report talks about a 'goods only' railway connection. No thanks.
This is how the tunnel will hypothetically look like:
The project is not sci-fi; the report says that the tunnel can actually be completed in 11 years at a reasonable cost if sufficient private sector funds are mobilised. The tunnel would span four artificial islands; so it won’t go deep below sea level like the one that crosses the English channel.
One thing is quite clear to me: The EU will need us who live on the other side of the Mediterranean in 15 or 20 years from now- when the median age of its population will be 55; when China will be the first economy in the world; and when Russia will have recovered its bargaining power on energy and security issues. Europeans will definitely start looking southward for larger markets and safer ways of gaining energy supply.
I think Tunisians should lobby very hard for this project to become reality. If we decide to stay in the so-called Union for the Mediterranean, we have to at least make our membership worthwhile by pressing ahead for a Euro-African tunnel, and a fortiori for the free movement of people between the two shores. The report talks about a 'goods only' railway connection. No thanks.
This is how the tunnel will hypothetically look like:
posted by Tarek at
16:47
1 Comments:
Elle est judicieuse ton adversite a la politique du sud de l'europe avec la Tunisie. Ces gens la se croient encore a l'epoque coloniale. Ils ne voient pas comment les Chinois, et les Japonais gagnent du terrain en Afrique, y compris la Tunisie. Si c'est du "goods-only" on en a pas besoin, les bateaux et les avions ferons l'affaire, en plus ca va encore engager plus de mesures de securite pour la Tunisie. Je te partage l'avis, sortant de cette maudite UPM, elle ne nous coutera que des engagements politiques et securitaires pas plus.
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Soufiene, at 9:28 AM
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