Strasbourg, 03/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - The Transport Commissioner, Loyola de Palacio, said that the trans-European networks were the backbone of the single market, when she presented the European Parliament with the review of the networks that the Commission had published on Tuesday (see yesterday's EUROPE, p.11), noting that this would be the first unified network since the Roman era.
The Commissioner stressed that over EUR 66 billion would be required to finance the new infrastructure...