Author: AIVP
Original title: Où en sont les projets prioritaires du réseau transeuropéen de transport
On sale date: Tuesday, 27 November 2007
Type of document: Press Article
Topic: 3.01 - european transport policy, 3.08 - multimodal transport
Location: Europe : :
Language: English, French, Spanish

Together with the highways of the sea, the trans-European rail transport networks constitute a major axis of the European policy for the development and cohesion of its territory. In particular they will enable the forecasted growth in the carriage of goods by road to be shifted towards other modes of transport. The coordinators of the 6 projects have handed their annual progress reports of their projects to Jacques Barrot and given him their recommendations. If the Berlin – Palermo and Paris – Bratislava trunk routes are progressing rapidly, the same cannot be said for the other four networks. Beyond the technical difficulties, they are also missing true and financial support from the countries concerned and sometimes also are meeting with opposition from local populations.

Trans-European transport network: the Coordinators have sent Vice-President Barrot their second annual reports - Brussels, Press release, IP/07/1294, 10 September 2007
To download the reports
See also : Où en sont les projets prioritaires du réseau transeuropéen de transport - Le Lloyd (Anvers), 17 septembre 2007, p. 12