The priority project Baltic Committee 23 - Vienna, will be extended to the Adriatic port system

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At the conclusion of the meeting today in Brussels with the head of unit for TEN-T (Trans European Network - Transports) direction of the Community Transport, the Dutch Ruijters Herald, and Günther Ettl, one of the main collaborators of the project coordinator priority No European 6, Laurens Jan Brinkhorstm, Councillor for Traffic and Transportation in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Riccardo Riccardi, and MEP Venetian Antonio Cancian have reported that there is full confirmation from the European Union on the inclusion of the continuation of the Corridor Baltic-Adriatic to the Friuli Venezia Giulia and from there to Veneto and Emilia-Romagna.

The 23 priority project, so far from the planned Baltic Sea to the capital of Austria, which will connect by rail Gdansk, Warsaw, Brno / Bratislava and Vienna, Styria and Carinthia will rise and then on through the axis of the rail Pontebbana, port system will be extended to the Adriatic to the ports of Trieste and Monfalcone, Venice and Ravenna. "This will be in the south - have explained Riccardi and Cancian - the main director of the Baltic-Adriatic."

Recalling that on 19 October the European Commission will officially present the new programming decisions on the 2014-2020 EU Trans-European Networks of transport, which will then be sent to the European Parliament, explained that Riccardi and Cancian Ruijters confirmed that the main axis to the south the Baltic-Adriatic corridor will pass through the Friuli Venezia Giulia. This "of course not exclude any other branch," Riccardi said the commissioner in mind the interest of the Slovenian government for a branch from Graz, Styria, towards Maribor and Ljubljana, however, required by planning authorities in Brussels for a north- south along the entire Balkan area up to Greece.

"On behalf of the EU - said Riccardi - we had the assurances of a strategic Baltic-Adriatic addressed to the Italian Adriatic ports. And we have stressed, once again, that the whole of the northern Adriatic port system, which includes and will include Italian airports, Slovenia (Koper) and, soon, Croatia (Rijeka) will be globally competitive with the production of PP 23, which "cuts" the north-eastern Italian, Austria (Carinthia and Styria in particular), Slovakia, Czech Republic and Poland. "

Today in the Belgian capital Riccardi also met with the commissioner in Brussels representatives of all other regions of the five countries that are involved in the Baltic-Adriatic corridor with the aim to develop - especially after October 19 when the '"dossier" will the European Parliament - a strong and constant action of "involvement" of MEPs on the future path of the Baltic-Adriatic. In this context, the 14 signatories to the declaration of October 2009 Regions of support for the extension south of the 23 priority project will promote the upcoming December 6 in Brussels an official meeting of the European Parliament to explain the importance and value of this axis rail " of the two seas. "