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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8045

12 September 2001
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/transport
On Wednesday, Commission adopts White Paper on transport with measures to finance development of rail or inland waterway transport to decongest main routes

Brussels, 11/09/2001 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday, the European Commission is expected to adopt its White Paper on transport policy, entitled "European transport policy in the run up to 2010 - a time to make choices". As it had announced in the political guidelines adopted in July this year, the main thing at stake is to reduce congestion in road and air transport and to reduce pollution, by keeping the share of rail transport in 2010 at least at its 1998 level. "This approach is far more...

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