This means new opportunities for the European transport of goods.

I believe this compromise is essential to European transport policy.

It is accepted that we should establish a common European transport policy.

Ladies and gentlemen, let us not have yet another European transport fund!

A European transport network offers enormous advantages in very different areas.

With the motorways of the sea, we are breaking new ground, and European transport policy can hold its head up there.

That is why it is important over time for us to create this European transport area.

Intermodality is the key concept of present and future European transport policy.

We should all being pulling together to find good, forward-looking solutions to European transport problems.

We have prescribed cost-fidelity as a principle of European transport policy in general.

In second place are the benefits for the environment, and thirdly it should make European transport more efficient.

This regulation is therefore a strong signal in favour of a real European transport and infrastructure policy.

It is a tool in the hands of sustainable development in European transport policy.

I consider this overall strategy to be suited to advance the integration of European transport markets.

It is crucial to the rationalisation of European transport.

As we are all aware, the European transport system will face major challenges over the next few years, and they need to be addressed right now.

I think that this report is one more positive step in our search for multi-modality as the main axis of European transport policy.

European transport policy is of particular importance when it comes to reducing CO2 emissions.

A European transport policy should be based on the public service provided by the principal collective means of transport.

Its main purpose is to find answers to the imbalance and potential inefficiency facing the European transport system today.

In particular, she worked to promote European transport and European energy.

European transport companies, whether they operate trains, road vehicles, aircraft or ships, are the most modern in the world.

A competitive economy for Europe stands or falls on a healthy European transport sector.

Furthermore, the future European transport system will only succeed with efficient and forward-looking ports.

I wonder whether we all agree on the importance of ports in terms of organising European transport.