In the Trump-brokered agreement for NATO to increase its defense spending, 'defense-related' projects take on a new definition.

Residents are opposed to the bridge over its scale, earthquake threats, environmental effect, and mafia interference.

Thousands of people marched in the Sicilian city of Messina on Saturday to protest a government plan to build a bridge that ...

Italy has cleared the way to build the world’s largest suspension bridge linking the Italian mainland with Sicily. An ...

Thousands protested in Messina against a $15.5 billion plan to build a bridge linking Sicily and mainland Italy. Opponents ...

Thousands of people have marched in Messina, Sicily, to protest a government plan to build a bridge connecting the Italian ...

The Strait of Messina Bridge would connect Sicily to the rest of Italy over a 2-mile stretch. It's expected to cost 13.5 ...

BRUSSELS — Italy has come under fire for mulling using a proposed €13.5 billion bridge to Sicily to count toward its defense spending — but the idea isn't nonsense, the company in charge of the ...

ROME — An Italian plan to build the world’s longest suspension bridge could boost Italy’s bid to reach NATO spending targets if it is defined as defense spending, experts have said ...

(MENAFN) Italy's government is considering reclassifying the much-debated €13.5 (around $14B) billion bridge connecting the mainland to Sicily as a strategic military project, aimed at meeting ...

Italy will count the £11 billion cost of a bridge to Sicily as defence spending to meet Nato’s 5 per cent of GDP military expenditure target.

In this week's Inside Italy newsletter, we look at why the government is so enthusiastic about the Messina Strait bridge project, and why work may begin soon despite the challenges threatening to blow ...