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Article: INFORMAL TRANSPORT COUNCIL : BARROT URGES STATES TO INVEST IN TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE.(Jacques Barrot)
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- European Report
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- May 7, 2008
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"Invest": that was the key message Transport Commissioner Jacques Barrot put out to EU transport ministers during the debate on the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) at the informal Council in Brdo, on 6 May. The day before the meeting, the commissioner told journalists that he planned to "tweak the ministers' ears". A working paper drawn up by his services for this informal Council reviews the state of progress of the TEN-T, the investments agreed, those still to come and scheduled completion dates. The paper notes that the member states invested an average of 1.5% of their GNP in transport infrastructures in the 1980s. That figure has now dropped to 0.45%. "A ...
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