Press Release: The Commission welcomes historic agreement on new trans-European transport network

Siim Kallas, Commission Vice-President responsible for transport, on 30 May 2013 welcomed the agreement between the European Commission, the Council and the Parliament on proposals to transform the existing patchwork of European roads, railways, airports and canals into a unified transport network (TEN-T).

The agreement establishes a core transport network to be established by 2030 to act as the backbone for transportation within the Single Market. Transport financing under the Connecting Europe Facility (for the period 2014–2020) will also focus on this core transport network, filling in cross-border missing links, removing bottlenecks and making the network smarter.