In a letter to Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas dated the same day, EPP members of the European Parliament from Spain, France and Italy call for inclusion of the Barcelona-Genoa high-speed rail line in the TEN-T. The letter is signed by Gaston Franco, Dominique Vlasto, Marie-Therese Sanchez-Schmid, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Santiago Fisas Ayxela and Carlo Fidanza.
The article 'Commission presents defining criteria for future TEN-T', published on 7 February (Europolitics 4136), stated that the Commission plans to include in the future 'core' transport network all ports with traffic of more than 1/1,000 of total EU traffic as well as all airports with passenger traffic of more than 1/1,000 of the EU average and/or with freight traffic exceeding 2/1,000 of EU traffic.
Before the SURE committee, Commissioner Kallas spoke of 43 billion planned to be invested in transport over a seven-year period from Structural Funds, 10 billion over seven years as R&D and 1.1 billion per annum under
TEN-T. However, he did not mention the single fund.