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"Mr President, when, at the Essen Summit, the necessary extensive investments in infrastructure were decided upon, it was mainly a question of motorways and high-speed trains crossing national frontiers in a Europe where investments have traditionally been made principally in the individual countries. That is precisely why this decision was so extraordinarily important. A properly functioning internal market will never, of course, be possible without extensive investment in this area.
Today’s report nonetheless raises a number of questions about how we are actually to follow up our various decisions. A few of these TEN projects have been carried out within a reasonable timeframe. Personally, I am very glad that one of these projects in particular has been carried out, namely the permanent link across the Sound between Sweden and Denmark which is to be opened on time in just a few months. I am more doubtful, however, where a number of the other projects are concerned.
As quite a number of people here have said, many of these projects are being developed awfully slowly. The rapporteur who, by the way, has done a quite excellent job, has expressed his concern about this. It is, indeed, very worrying when these ventures are not taken seriously. Let me give an example of this. It concerns the Nordic triangle, designed to link the Scandinavian capitals by high-speed train and motorway. This is something which the countries concerned have undertaken to carry out, but it is a terribly slow process. Money is forever being transferred to other projects which are obviously considered more important than this major European project. This happens because there is every opportunity to transfer money in this way, there being no proper deadlines for when the projects concerned are to be carried out. Neither the road nor the railway ventures are, therefore, going to be finished within a reasonable period of time.
I should therefore like, here today, to ask the Commission’s representative a number of questions. When does the Commission think that the Nordic triangle and the other TEN projects will be complete? What is the Commission actually doing to make sure that they are in fact completed? Is the Commission prepared to commit itself to establishing specific deadlines for completing the outstanding projects and, subsequently, also to ensure that these deadlines are met?"@en1
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