TENS TRANSPORT NETWORK BUDGET ROW EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT EU COUNCIL OF MINISTERS
January 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A FIERCE row has broken out between European Union (EU) national governments and the European Parliament over planned Euro 13 billion cuts to the EU trans-European networks (TENs) transport budget for 2007-13. The slashing of the planned budget from an initial Euro 20 billion came in December's EU medium-term budget deal, brokered by the UK government, with transport being a victim of Britain's refusal to cut much of its rebate and France its agricultural subsidies. Now the EP's transport committee has slammed the cuts, with chair Paolo Costa ...
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