Italy to review country's infrastructure concessions system - minister


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  • Monday, 27 Aug 2018

FILE PHOTO: Italy's Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Danilo Toninelli arrives for gala dinner at the Quirinal palace in Rome, Italy, June 1, 2018. REUTERS/Remo Casilli/File Photo

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's Transport Minister Danilo Toninelli said on Monday that the country would review its infrastructure concession system on a case-by-case basis to determine whether to nationalise some of them or renegotiate the contracts.

"This government will do all it can to completely revise the concessions system and the contract obligations," Toninelli said in testimony to a joint meeting of parliament's transport committees.

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