CORRIDOR STRATEGIES AND
SUB-REGIONAL INTERESTS
Tamás Fleischer
Institute for World Economics
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
http://www.vki.hu/~tfleisch/
[email protected]
“EU projects- Trans European Corridors”
Session 5: “Assessment of EU Strategies and Sub-regional projects (roundtable)”
“Energy and Transport Issues in Europe’s Four Sea Basins”
Center of European Studies at the Middle East Technical University, CES-METU
Ankara, January 21-22, 2010.
CORRIDOR STRATEGIES AND
SUB-REGIONAL INTERESTS
 Personal message from a land-locked country
 EU cooperation areas: mainly sea-side cooperation…
 …but differently handled in the eastern side of Europe
 Transport corridors:
important internal interconnecting elements…
 …but differently handled in the eastern side of Europe
 Summary: the good internal links must offer the basis of the
local development
Co-operation areas
INTERREG III.B
cooperation areas
Mainly sea gulfs, sea shores
were determining the cooperating areas in the north and
western part of the continent
Source: Zonneveld, Wil (2005)
Expansive Spatial Planning:
The New European
Transnational Spatial Visions.
European Planning Studies,
Vol.13. No.1. pp.137-155.
Co-operation areas
INTERREG III.B
(2000-2006)
cooperation areas
CADSES = Central European,
Adriatic, Danubian and
South-Eastern European
cooperation area.
All those areas were swept
together, that were remote and
unimportant from the point of
„Brussels” Non-cooperating
Source: INTERREG areas.
http://europa.eu.int/comm/regional_
policy/interreg3/images/pdf/int3b_uk_a4p.pdf
Co-operation areas
INTERREG III.B
(2004-2006)
cooperation areas
CADSES =
Central European,
Adriatic,
Danubian and
South-Eastern European
cooperation area.
Forrás: INTERREG térségek.
The Danube watershed basin
 The Danube watershed covers the landlocked regions of the CADSES area
TRANSPORT CORRIDORS
TEN-T, PEC, PETRA, TINA, TIRS, REBIS ETC.
Tamás Fleischer
“EU projects- Trans European Corridors”
Session 5: “Assessment of EU Strategies and Sub-regional projects (roundtable)”
“Energy and Transport Issues in Europe’s Four Sea Basins”
Center of European Studies at the Middle East Technical University, CES-METU
Ankara, January 21-22, 2010.
European perspective
Source: Az országos közúthálózat 1991-2000 évekre szóló-fejlesztési programja 1991, KHVM.
Road numbering since 1975 – the first signal of corridors
European perspective
 What does the eastern extension of the grid
of the TEN means?
European perspective
 Eastern extension of the grid of the TEN
European perspective
 Eastern extension
European perspective ?
 Eastern extension of the east-west corridors
European perspective ?
 Eastern extension of the east-west corridors
European perspective ?
Source: http://www.khvm.hu/EU-integracio/A_magyarorszagi_TINA_halozat/Image11.gif
The Helsinki-, or Pan-European transport corridors
…and so an
that is:
 The European Union evolved an overlapping TEN (Trans-European


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
Network) on the basis of the transport network of its 12 (15) countries in
the late 1980s, and in 1992 it was fixed in the transport policy (CTP) and
the Basic Treaty of the Union.
Since that time the entire network has been pushed into the background
in the documentations, and there is mostly talk about the building of 14
projects (1996), (and 30 projects (29. 04. 2004) after the expansion of the list).
The PEC (Pan-European Corridors) tried to cover the eastern part of
Europe by extending the east-west corridors of the TEN (1994, 1997)
and added also four Pan-European Transport Areas PETRAs
The TINA process (valid for the territory of the acceding countries of the
two major eastern enlargement) retained the PEC as primary network,
but it made possible the inclusion of secondary corridors and increasing
the density of corridors (1995–1999). .
The TIRS process involving seven Balkan countries regarded the PEC
and TINA corridors as starting points, and supplemented the latter ones
towards five more countries (2002).
…and so an
that is:
 The REBIS has once again surveyed the latter five countries and though
it did not revise the results of earlier processes, reconsidered each of
the elements of the TIRS supplementary networks involving the five
countries and made recommendations for the comprehensive transport
networks of the REBIS space (2003).
 The project-oriented approach dominates in the entire process,
including the changes of the TEN-network of the Fifteen from the early
1990s on, and the network is almost exclusively influenced by the
financing possibilities of the elemental projects
 The 2004 revision of the TEN network missed to consider the actual
function and continental structure of an overlapping network in the
context of the enlarged Europe. Instead the former structures were
preserved (strengthened) that have developed within the national borders
(The document even missed to determine the TEN-T network that is valid after
the extension of the EU on the 01. 05. 2004.)
 As a consequence, and because of the radial piecemeal mending of the
TEN-structure initially formed, the developing network further
strengthens the dominance of more developed spaces instead of an
open grill network that would promote equalisation on European scale
Green Paper TEN-T : A policy review
 Green Paper "TEN-T : A policy review – Towards a better integrated
trans-European transport network at the service of the common transport
policy” (Consultation period : 04/02/2009 - 30/04/2009)
 The comprehensive network „comprises altogether: 95 700 km of road links,
106 000 km of railway links (including 32 000 km of high-speed links), 13 000 km of
inland waterways, 411 airports and 404 sea ports. Most of these links and nodes
already exist”
 The TEN-T priority projects cover major rail, road and inland waterway axes
that traverse several Member States. (30 projects since 2004)
 „The current priority projects approach could evolve towards a priority
network approach”
 „The conceptual approach of TEN-T … direct TEN-T towards its main
objective of serving as a basis for transport services that meet established
Community objectives”
 „The different "pillars" referred to above could be combined to form a
TEN-T core network. Such a network could include both a priority
network and a conceptual pillar, thus reflecting the need for flexibility
and market orientation.”
CORRIDOR STRATEGIES AND
SUB-REGIONAL INTERESTS
Tamás Fleischer
Institute for World Economics
of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
http://www.vki.hu/~tfleisch/
[email protected]
THANK YOU
FOR YOUR KIND
ATTENTION !
“EU projects- Trans European Corridors”
Session 5: “Assessment of EU Strategies and Sub-regional projects (roundtable)”
“Energy and Transport Issues in Europe’s Four Sea Basins”
Center of European Studies at the Middle East Technical University, CES-METU
Ankara, January 21-22, 2010.