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Spain bets on a trans-European transport network to improve regional development

10/02/2011

February 10, 2011

The Minister of public works, José Blanco, participated in the informal meeting of Ministers of transport of the European Union in the Hungarian town of Gödöllő on 8 February, which was the process of revision of the trans-European transport network (ten-T) undertaken by the European Commission as a single item on the agenda of the day.

At the meeting, which also was attended by the Vice-President of the Commission and transport Commissioner, Siim Kallas, together with the ministerial representatives of 27 States and of the Transport Commission of the European Parliament, was shown the interest of Spain to ensure that the new design of the core network infrastructure will serve to progress even in the process of EU integration.

During the meeting, white was pleased by the decision of Hungary continue, within the framework of the EU Presidency which exercises during this semester and which forms a trio with the Belgium and Spain, with the impetus for the design of a transport system modern and balanced response to the shortcomings that were special shows during the crisis of the volcanic ash that paralyzed much of the European air traffic.

Review currently under way is a "priority in the strategic agenda of the present Trio Presidency", said White, "and at the same time the Spanish Presidency held in June of last year in Zaragoza, and together with the Commission"", a monograph meeting".

The Spanish person in charge of transport said that the redesign of the ten-T should not be based solely on the analysis of traffic flows and merely quantitative criteria. "Could be difficult," said White, "to ensure the fulfilment of the objective of developing a balanced network so as to serve as diverse as European territorial reality". The Minister of public works announces that betting Spain by introducing in the process aspects such as territorial cohesion and regional development, "factors that will make it possible to take into account the particularities of the various regions that make up the European Union".

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