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Kallas pledges new road safety targets |
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Wednesday, 06 October 2010 00:00 |
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Siim Kallas. Vice President of the European Commisison and Commissioner for Transport
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Kallas tells European Transport Forum that Europe could halve road deaths in a decade
The European Union could see road deaths halve in the decade from 2011 to 2020 if it makes a concerted effort to emphasize enforcement, education and smart technologies, EU Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas told the European Transport Forum in Brussels on October 5th.
Speaking less than three months after he unveiled the Commission’s European Road Safety Policy Orientations, Kallas said the 40% cut in EU road deaths over the decade until 2010 proved that targets and safety programmes could deliver results. But he insisted that the EU should do more, and maintain the momentum to make roads even safer. “Despite impressive improvements, road trauma still high. And without concerted action, the rate would rise again,” he said. “It is not because spectacular progress has been achieved that we can feel relaxed.” The Commissioner also placed a lot of faith in Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), saying,” they could help provide a more efficient, safer and more sustainable, integrated and competitive mobility in Europe".
The animated debate that followed moderated by Jacki Davis, saw top officials, business leaders and road safety campaigners agree that the EU had a lot of scope to intervene in cutting road deaths.
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Can Europe learn low carbon lessons from the US? |
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Friday, 13 May 2011 08:00 |
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As the European Union begins its debate on how to remove carbon emissions from the transport sector, it could do worse than look across the pond to see how the United States is dealing with the issue. While often derided for its resistance to emission-reducing measures, the US nonetheless has a few key pointers that are worth picking up.
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Monti: Reboot Europe through the Single Market |
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Monday, 17 October 2011 00:00 |
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Europe’s single market was never completed and key sectors including transport are hampered by national barriers, warns EU elder statesman Mario Monti. In an exclusive interview with the European Transport Forum, Monti – a former EU Commissioner - urges policymakers to refocus their energies on finishing the job they promised when they first launched the Single Market programme in the 1980's.
Mario Monti: "The EU Single Market is a grey area of thousands of small bits and pieces, none of which is sexy or attracts a high level of political attention.”
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Mario Monti seems naturally suited to be president of the prestigious Bocconi University in Milan, the institution where he first earned a degree in economics and management, and where he later became a rector. He is, to all appearances, a classic academic, with his soft-spoken, professorial manner.
But he also has a keen political eye and a steely toughness: from 1995 to 2005, Monti held two of the most influential positions in European policy-making, firstly as a highly regarded EU Single Market Commissioner, and then as an equally respected Competition Commissioner. And today, though he is far from the Brussels bubble, Monti is keen to deliver a stiff political message to European leaders about their unfinished business when it comes to his old portfolio, the Single Market. “The single market has never been as unpopular in Europe as it is now,” he says. “At the same time, it has never been so necessary. That is why it requires a huge political investment from the European institutions and from national leadership.”
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Road Safety: the medicine seems to be working |
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Tuesday, 12 July 2011 10:00 |
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A big fall in road deaths suggests the European Union’s focus on safety is having an effect.
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There were many who assumed that the Brussels bureaucrats behind the European Union’s road safety action plan were being woefully naïve when they first proposed a target of halving road deaths within a decade. Yet the evidence indicates that this is actually happening.
While the first EU programme missed the target, it nonetheless managed a respectable cut of 44% from 54,302 in 2001 to 2010. But a close look at the annual statistics – released by the European Commission on July 5 - shows how well it is working: between 2009 and 2010, road fatalities in the EU fell by a whopping 11%.
A second ten-year programme was launched last year, again with a target of halving road deaths. If the trend from last year continues over the coming decade, it means that the EU could actually see road deaths cut by two thirds when the programme ends in 2020.
the full article can be found here. |
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Wednesday, 17 June 2009 08:45 |
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