European the marine and internal ports restate the necessity not to carve the transport budget for infrastructure



In sight of the summit of the heads of state and government of the nations of the European Union that will hold tomorrow and friday to Brussels with the objective to reach an agreement on pluriennale picture financial (QFP) for period 2014-2010 and on the relative division of the deep ones, understanding that is not reached in the held reunion last November, the associations of the marine ports and the European internal ports have sped up the representatives of the Countries EU not to carve the budget of 31,7 billion euros previewed for the investments in transport infrastructures TRY of the European Union in the within of the program Connecting Europe Facility (CEF).

"The budget previewed for TRIES - it has found the president to them of the European Federation of Inland Ports (EFIP), Isabelle Ryckbost - is stiff to finance a concrete transport infrastructure program from which all will draw benefit the modalities of transport, the Member States and the regions. The figure of 31,7 billion euros will not serve to the single transport as such: optimizing the connections and the nodes of transport, of it the other policies, not last will benefit all those for the European cohesion and agriculture. In such sense the budget for TRIES to them relapses real and can be considered as one of the better ways in order to spend the European funds. It would be a sin - it has concluded Ryckbost - if the European leaders cut to this budget and this plan".

"We hope - the general secretary of the European Sea Ports Organisation (ESPO has confirmed), Patrick Verhoeven - than the European leaders realize that a quota 3% of the total budget is minimal for a field that employs ten million people directly and represents 5% about of the Gross Domestic Product one. This - it has found - is sure the case of the ports. The ports are true generators of places of work and are true engines of regional development. Moreover, as main gateways towards the world, the marine ports are essential in order to guarantee the economic increase of Europe".

While this morning the European Parliament is discussing the budget EU 2014-2020 in forecast about the European board meeting that will be opened tomorrow. According to the forecasts, the deputies will perceive the national governments who put up will be the proposed cuts, smaller will be the possibilities that the Parliament gives its necessary agreement. Moreover they will ask greater flexibility for having the possibility to move the resources financial institutions from a chapter to the other of the budget and will ask also that the EU is equipped of real resources own in order to diminish the contributions of the national budgets, second prescribed how much from the treatys.