Overview
- Italy’s audit court did not admit to the visto or registration the August 1, 2025 MIT–MEF decree approving the third addendum to the 2003 convention with Società Stretto di Messina.
- The rejected addendum is tied to the August Cipess resolution on funding and approval of the executive project, which the Court also declined to clear at the end of October.
- The non-admission blocks the decree’s registration, effectively preventing the program agreement required to advance the roughly €14 billion project.
- The Court said its detailed reasoning is being drafted and will be issued by formal deliberation within thirty days.
- Transport Minister Matteo Salvini called the outcome unsurprising and said experts are preparing clarifications, while opposition figures argued the government was pushing an illegitimate process.