Press Release: High Level Transport Group calls for better transport links with EU Neighbours

The High Level Group set up by the European Commission in 2004 to look at transport connections between the newly enlarged European Union and its 26 neighbours submitted its final report on 7 December 2005. Recommendations included a mix of infrastructure projects and simpler measures aiming to stimulate trade and to facilitate traffic flows between countries along five major transnational transport axes.

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European Commission: High Level Group on the Extension of Major trans-European Transport Axes to the Neighbouring Countries and Regions: Final Report: Networks for Peace and Development, 7.12.05 http://ec.europa.eu/comm/ten/transport/external_dimension/doc/2005_12_07_ten_t_final_report_en.pdf

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