Press Release: Relaunching the Danube pan-European corridor: a bridge which unites Europeans

A Memorandum of Understanding on the Danube pan-European corridor was signed on 27 February 2002 in the presence of high-level representatives of the countries concerned: Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, Ukraine and Yugoslavia and Loyola de Palacio, European Commissioner for Energy and Trasnsport. The Memorandum of Understanding creates a flexible and efficient structure for concerted action and the promotion of various initiatives to develop the Danube corridor and provides a discussion forum for projects of common interest. The Danube, together with the Rhine and the Rhine-Main-Danube canal, is a key link in the strategic connection between the Black Sea and the North Sea. The Danube corridor is therefore particularly important for the whole of Europe