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; .
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