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communitarian Financings record for the nine corridors of the central net of the transports of the EU
Kallas: to invest in this field is more important that never for feeding the economic resumption
September 11, 2014
Today the EU commission has launch a call for proposals inviting the States EU to propose projects in order to use 11,9 billion euros of financings of the Union destined to improve the transports. Draft of the greater never destined amount from the EU to transport infrastructures.
The financings will be concentrated on nine corridors that, with, will form the central net of the transports: Baltic sea-Adriatic; Sea of Baltic North-Sea; The Mediterranean; East/Mediterranean oriental; the Scandinavian-Mediterranean; The Rhine-Alps; Atlantic; Sea of Mediterranean North-Sea; The Rhine-Danube ( on 17 October 2013). The new central net, that it will be instituted within 2030, will connect 94 main European ports by means of railway and street connections, 38 main airports by means of railway connections towards great cities, 15,000 kilometers of railway lines converted to high speed and 35 transboundary projects destined to reduce the throttlings.
"The transports - it has emphasized Siim Kallas, vice president of the EU commission and responsible for transport - are fundamental for the efficiency of the European economy: to invest in this field is therefore more important that never for feeding the resumption. The deprived zones of Europe of good connections are not destined to grow or to prosper. The Member States must pick this opportunity of financing for having better more competitive connections, being and guaranteeing faster and comfortable displacements to citizens and enterprises".
The Commission has remembered that the destined financings of the EU to the transports are tripled passing from eight billions of euro for period 2007-2013 to 26 billion euros for period 2014-2020 in the within of the new mechanism in order to connect Europe (CEF, Connecting Europe Facility). That announced today is the first quota the new financings allocated in favor of the transports.
The proposals will have to be introduced within on February 26, 2015. The projects will receive financings EU, but they will have to be co-financed from the Member States. The results of the contests of contract and the allocation of the projects will be announced in the summer of 2015.
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Today the EU commission has launch a call for proposals inviting the States EU to propose projects in order to use 11,9 billion euros of financings of the Union destined to improve the transports. Draft of the greater never destined amount from the EU to transport infrastructures.
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
