3 Amendments of Tamás DEUTSCH related to 2015/2347(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that ESI Funds can be used in the development of the missing links in the border areas across Central and Eastern Europe; recalls that priority should be given to cross-border projects pertaining to the trans-European networks (TENs) in the region in order to eliminate existing bottlenecks; calls, in this context, for continued efforts to be made towards introducing common standards in infrastructure, notably with regard to railways, in order to speed up attainment of the objective of efficient and Europe-wide interoperability;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Welcomes the European Commission's efforts in extending the TEN-T corridors to Western-Balkan candidate countries, underlines the importance of better connectivity with Western Balkan countries by decreasing their infrastructure deficiencies and eliminating cross-border bottlenecks with Member States; urges the Commission to consider this successful model, in connection to Eastern Partnership countries as well;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Strongly advises making better use of existing policies and instruments for regional cooperation, such as European Territorial Cooperation (ETC), Interreg and especially European Groupings of Territorial Cooperation (EGTCs), to enhance cross-border transport between regions and remove bottlenecks; urges the Member States to support and not impede such solutions on a local and regional level; advocates the use of macro-regional strategies like those for the Danube and, the Baltic Sea, the Adriatic and Ionian in order to advance transnational infrastructure projects;