On last 21-22 of October an important review meeting has been held in Naples during the “TEN-T Days”, with the main purpose of identifying upco-ming challenges for the TEN-T programme and stimulate a debate between stakeholders on drivers for the future Eu-ropean transport policy.
Extend the TEN-T network to EU neighbouring countries such as North Africa, Turkey, Balkans, and share with them the EU transport legislation and standard are some ambi-tious objectives which will be part of the next future EU transport policy.
A Euro-African Transport Forum was held in the frame-work of “TEN-T Days”, and it was attended by representati-ves of EU Member States, the Commission as well as those from African countries and regional organisations.
The core purpose of this forum was to promote and strengthen the cooperation in the transport sector, putting at the disposal of the African continent Europe's experien-ce in this area and developing a concrete action plan aiming at reinforcing the intercon-nections between the EU an the African networks.
As indicated by Mrs. B. Lan-genhagen, former MEP and President of MARI:”The next step for the development of European Member states business and of sustainable transport is represented by the neighbourhood countries facing on the Mediterranean Sea”. Is even this valid now for countries such as Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and those in the Middle East which are turning from unde-veloped to developing coun-tries.
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