The 20th anniversary of RTE-T

During a lively round table discussion attended by Sophia Kircher, Member of the European Parliament and Vice-President of the TRAN Committee; Xavier Bertrand, President of the Hauts-de-France Region and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Seine-Nord Europe Canal Company; Professor Péter Balázs, former European Coordinator of the North Sea-Mediterranean Corridor; Robert de Groot, Vice-President of the European Investment Bank; and Pat Cox, European Coordinator, Scandinavia-Mediterranean Transport Corridor – moderated by Herald Ruijters, former Deputy Director-General for Transport of the EU – the participants examined:

• The political and operational challenges related to the completion of European transport corridors and the core network by 2030,
• The importance of coordinators in advancing cross-border projects,
• The need to ensure sufficient funding to complete the TEN-T and stimulate military mobility,
• How the TEN-T policy can continue to support sustainable, smart and resilient transport infrastructure and EU competitiveness.

Xavier Bertrand had recalled the European Commission's capacity for initiative and definition of a stable and coherent framework through legal acts such as the implementing decision relating to the Seine Escaut network of 27 June 2019, revised in 2024, of which the Seine Escaut project was one of the first in Europe to be the subject.