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This photo taken on February 1, 2019 shows the entrance of the future tunnel Lyon-Turin during the visit of the French Minister of Transport on the site of Saint-Martin-la-Porte, in the south-east of France. JEAN-PIERRE CLATOT / AFP

Three days before the deadline of 11 March for the launching of notices of calls for applications necessary for the continuation of the Lyon-Turin connection, Rome still can not make a decision. And for the first time, the vice-president of the Council, Matteo Salvini, who ardently defends the project, evoked the possibility of a rupture of the governmental alliance between his far-right party, the League, and the unclassifiable 5-star movement, anti-LGV, directed by Luigi Di Maio.

With our correspondent in Rome , Anne Le Nir

Thursday night, Matteo Salvini, whose party is strongly supported by the companies of the north of Italy , seemed determined. He said, " I'll go to the end and we'll see who has the hardest head! "

It must be said that the Vice-President of the Council was particularly irritated by the words of the Prime Minister, Giuseppe Conte, who for the first time, publicly expressed his " perplexities " about the usefulness of Lyon-Turin for the Italians.

A position almost modeled on that of the 5-star movement, opposed to the continuation of the project deemed " too expensive and now obsolete ."

This Friday morning, Matteo Salvini has softened by assuring that there is " no question of causing a fall of the government because there is so much to do for the country. But for now, Rome remains deadlocked.

A Council of Ministers will be held this Friday evening to try to find a compromise between the two poles of the ruling coalition.