Deputy Speaker Marek Kuchciński participates in today's Conference on Via Carpathia Route organised in the European Parliament in Brussels on the initiative of MEP Tomasz Poręba.
The aim of the conference is to disseminate and strengthen the image of Via Carpathia as the most important transport route in the Eastern regions of the European Union.
The Via Carpathia will connect the Baltic, Mediterranean and Black Seas. It will run through Lithuania, Hungary, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece and eastern Poland. As Tomasz Poręba, the conference organizer says: - This is a route of key importance not only for Poland, but for Europe in general, for example in the context of its future expansion to the East. That is why this road is so important in the TEN-T revision which is currently taking place.
The TEN-T Regulation defines the priorities in the field of European transport policy. It currently divides the Via Carpathia into many sections to be completed at different intervals, threatening the integrity of the entire route.
The conference will be attended by the Ministers of Transport of the countries which have signed up to the Via Carpatia international transport route project (Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece), representatives of the regions through which the route passes, international experts and European Commission Directors responsible for TEN-T networks, Ambassadors to the Kingdom of Belgium as well as Permanent Representatives to the European Union and MEPs. Conference participants will jointly sign the "Brussels Declaration on Via Carpathia".
The idea of creating the "Via Carpathia" road route was first launched by Poland in 2006 in Lancut under the patronage and in the presence of the late Lech Kaczynski, President of Poland. On October 22, 2010, During the international conference in Lancut the Ministers of Transport of seven countries through which the route runs signed a new version of the Lancut Declaration, in which they undertook, among others, to take all possible measures to include the above-mentioned route in its entire length (Klaipziger, Klaipėda, Klaipėda). They committed to take all possible measures to include the entire length of the route (Klaipeda - Kaunas - Bialystok - Lublin - Rzeszow - Kosice - Miskolc - Debrecen - Oradea - Logoj - Calafat/Constanta - Sofija/Svilengrad - Thessaloniki) into the TEN-T network within the framework of the revision of the EU guidelines on this issue. The conference takes place on Tuesday 2 October 2012 from 10:00 to 13:00 at the European Parliament in Brussels, room A5E2.
Compiled from: www.tomaszporeba.pl.
