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Western Balkans transport community to boost regional economic growth: EU commissioner

Xinhua,March 27, 2018 Adjust font size:

BELGRADE, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Newly-established regional transport community enables countries of the western Balkans to dedicate to joint projects and to use financial mechanisms of the European Union (EU), European Transport Commissioner Violeta Bulc said here on Monday.

Bulc met here with Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic and talked about the Transport Community Treaty of the Western Balkans that was adopted at the Western Balkans summit in Trieste in July last year, with deeper integration of regional transport market with the EU as the key objective.

She said that the "establishment of the association represents a possibility to create a common transport market for all countries of the Western Balkans", the government stated in a press release after the meeting.

Bulc stressed the infrastructural interconnection is a path towards faster economic growth of Serbia and the whole region.

She reminded that the agreement on the establishment of the transport community envisages the "implementation of the EU legislation in the area of transport, simplification of administrative formalities and a basis to improve the transport infrastructure".

Brnabic stressed that the decision to choose Belgrade as the seat of the transport community that was adopted last December is a step forward towards the implementation of initiative supported by all representatives of the region and the EU.

She stressed that Serbia is dedicated to "regional cooperation and economic interconnection of the Western Balkans in which context the establishment of the transport community is immensely significant".

Previously Bulc visited construction sites in Serbia together with Zorana Mihajlovic, Serbian minister of construction, transport and infrastructure, where the two talked about infrastructural projects being realized in Serbia, especially those that are part of the interconnection agenda, as well as about Belgrade's future steps at the helm of the transport community, the release concluded. Enditem

 

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