European transport organisations are joining forces to campaign for an urgent rise in the EU transport budget - if it wants to grow and be resilient.
FEPORT and 44 other organisations want the Council and the European Parliament to increase the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) budget for transport in the upcoming review of the Multi-Annual Financial Framework.
“The EU must be ambitious for its transport sector as for all industries that belong to this fantastic enabler of trade, growth and resilience,” said Lamia Kerdjoudj, secretary general, FEPORT.
”More EU budget for transport should be a strategic priority. It is vital to safeguard the EU supply chain sovereignty and learn from the recent events we have been going through to prepare the future”.
Strategic importance
Ms Kerdjoudj said that if Europe is to strengthen its resilience and finally complete the Trans-European Transport Network, it must translate its words into deeds and reflect these ambitions in the new EU budget for transport.
She said that the massive oversubscriptions of the current CEF transport budget underline once again that the ambitions and challenges of the transport sector are high, yet are not met with the necessary EU support.
FEPORT said that the take-away for European leaders and policymakers should be clear: This is the moment for Europe to reverse the trend of continued underfunding of the transport sector and set the bar high.
A strong CEF instrument for transport is the best guarantee to deliver high EU added value, foster a level playing field across Europe and enable no regret investments.
Read the leaflet of the transport campaign for the review of the next EU budget.
