Salvini, proceedings against Austria initiated for Brenner Pass. "Austria's unilateral bans are unacceptable and unsustainable because they block the main axis of connection between southern and northern Europe," he said.

"It is shameful after four years of waiting, for a negotiated solution, which does not has arrived" He said this at question time in the Italian parliament on Thursday. The deputy prime minister and minister of transport and infrastructure, Matteo Salvini, was speaking at a parliamentary debate on the issue.