SECTORAL POLICIES / Transport

In European Parliament, Member States called upon to work harder to make TEN-T reality

Brussels, 03/09/2020 (Agence Europe)

The European Parliament’s Transport Committee (TRAN) discussed on Thursday 3 September a draft own-initiative report on the revision of the guidelines for the trans-European transport network (TEN-T).

The completion of the TEN-T is clearly behind schedule - 11 years on average for some ‘mega-projects’ (see EUROPE B12507A18) - and suffers from a lack of interest on the part of many national authorities.

German MEP Jens Gieseke (EPP), the rapporteur, said the trans-European network is...