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"Mr President, as representatives of Europe’s electorate and people, we have some comprehensive tasks as politicians. First, we must ensure a good environment to live in and, second, we must ensure that there is employment, particularly for our young people in the future. In order to achieve a good environment, employment and growth, we must make use of transport links and communications. We must make use of the trans-European networks in a European context. We can thus promote both growth and a good environment.
This must also take place in the peripheral northern areas where we have close trade relations with Russia, for example. This would benefit the whole of the EU from an industrial point of view and create opportunities for employment. We therefore propose in Amendment No 47 that the Haparandabanan line should be a priority project within the trans-European networks. The railway is connected to those main lines that together make up an important goods route within northern Sweden and that, in turn, are connected to the Nordic Triangle, the Council’s Project 12.
The Haparandabanan line is a missing link
It is a mature project that involves the upgrading and new construction of railways on the Swedish side in order to raise the standard, and a rational track gauge shifting facility at the national border in Haparanda - Torneå.
The project would facilitate trade with Russia and improve the environment in the EU. North-western Russia has great access to raw materials which should be of value to European industry and which are transported by this route. An improvement of the rail connection can therefore be expected to contribute to a continued beneficial development of trade. The section of the project relating to track gauge shifting facilities will provide experiences that can be drawn on also in other places in the EU that have problems with the linking of railway networks with different track gauges, for example between the Baltic countries and Central Europe and between Russia and the EU.
Finally, I would like to agree with the comments of Mr Savary at the beginning of the debate."@en1
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