EU TRANSPORT WHITE PAPER REVIEW
May 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL A GROUP of senior environmental European non-governmental organisations have written to European Commission President José Manuel Barroso, warning that the European Union (EU) was moving away from its past anti-road stance. The Green-10 group, which includes Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace, claim that commitments to promote rail and shipping in the Commission's 2001 transport white paper were being watered down in a current review. Notably, it complains that a review report recommends regional spending funds be spent on new roads to ...
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