The high-level Work Group on transport, set up by the European Commission in 2004, has presented its final Report. The objective of the Work Group was to study the transport links between the enlarged European Union and its 26 neighbouring countries (Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Byelorussia, Bulgaria, Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, Egypt, Georgia, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Moldova, Norway, Palestinian Authority, Romania, Russia, Serbia Montenegro, Kossovo, Switzerland, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine). The Group has identified 5 priorities called “axes” which have been translated into concrete proposals for five major infrastructural projects: coastal motorways linking the Baltic Sea, Atlantic, Mediterranean and Black Sea, with extension also to the Suez Canal; north-eastern axis linking the EU with Norway and Russia (including the Trans-Siberian Railroad); central axis linking the centre of the EU with the Ukraine and the Black Sea; south-eastern axis linking the centre of the EU through the Balkans and Turkey with the Caucasus, the Caspian Sea and the Middle East as far south as Egypt; and south-western axis linking the South and Centre of Europe with Switzerland on the one hand and with Morocco and the trans-Maghrebi axis as far as Egypt on the other. For further information, http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/transport/index_it.html
