Italy gives final approval for longest suspension bridge to Sicily (bbc.com)

   “Rome is hoping to classify the bridge as a military expenditure to make it count towards the Nato target of 5% of GDP spent on defence.”

Maybe they can classify explosives as fertiliser and increase their agricultural output.

until the 80s political parties could make money with any public project (more then 30%), then EU auctions stopped the game, and now the only way to drain money for parties is to make some kind of exceptional project (best are earthquakes or other disasters, but unfortunately they are not so frequent): so anything unique (olimpic games, stopping the floating of Venice, etc etc) is worth.