Les réseaux de transport transeuropéens

Trans-European Transportation Networks. The Missing Link Between History and Geography ?
The coming of a unified market and the consequent growth of trade within the European Union should logically be accompanied by a policy to encourage the knitting of national transportation systems into a Community network. In view of greater cohesion, the more remote regions should be pulled together lest they find themselves marginalized.
From numerous studies dedicated to this issue, the European Council of Essen (1994) eventually selected fourteen priority projects which, if put into place, should also stimulate economic growth and employement in the short and long term.
Claude Martinand, however, deplores the lack of adequate financial provision for these projects and the habitual hesitation entailed in coupling public institutions with the private sector. Without dwelling on the wisdom or desirability of these grand schemes, Martinand’s text is testimony to the difficulty of uniting means with ambitions in building Europe.