Any notion that switching plans and aiming to build a new stadium at La Maura would be easier for AC Milan is quickly being disproven, or so it seems.
According to a report from Corriere della Sera (via Calciomercato.com), Milan are continuing to work towards a new stadium at the La Maura racecourse area, but the Rossoneri’s mission is blocked with new obstacles.
The project has reached the European Union because city councillor Enrico Fedrighini has presented a complaint regarding the violation of the ‘EU Soil Strategy for 2030’ directive, because of the plan to construct the stadium in the South Agricultural Park.
Fedrighini wrote to the European Commissioner for the Environment – Virginijus Sinkevicius – to activate ‘all the necessary measures to prevent and avoid the irreversible transformation of the protected area’.
The councillor denounces the risk, in the event of construction of the 70,000-seat stadium, of a ‘derogation promoted by public authorities (Municipality and Region) with respect to a regulation aimed at protecting the soil and guaranteeing ecosystem services’.
The response from the European Commissioner is expected in 90 days and if he agrees, it could create a new obstacle for Milan to overcome. In the meantime, Alessandro De Chirico has filed a motion to convene an extraordinary session of the City Council within 20 days to discuss the stadium.
