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Policies * Europe - Funds: Transport nominee wants ‘bigger money’, fewer projects
Brussels,Belgium -EurActiv -15 January 2010: -- Siim Kallas, the EU's commissioner-designate for transport, vowed to defend a strategic vision at a European Parliament hearing on Thursday (14 January), saying he wanted EU money to be spent on large transport infrastructure projects rather than small ones... A review of the EU's transport infrastructure is expected this year, including a revision of the 30 priority projects defined in 2004, which are mainly in the rail sector... However, a full-scale budgetary review is not due before negotiations start on the EU's long-term financial planning next year, Kallas cautioned, adding that it was "not only public money that can solve the problem"...
Taxes * Ireland - Government doesn't value us, say transport firms
Cavan,Monaghan,Ireland -The Anglo Celt, by Tom Carron -14 January, 2010: -- Increases in excise duties and the new carbon tax have made it untenable for many transport firms to continue in business and a significant number in the Cavan, Monaghan region switched off their engines at Christmas and are not resuming business now in the new year... The sense of grievance within the road haulage sector does not end with their unhappiness over the tax take in a litre of diesel. Irish road transport firms feel that they are having to compete on an uneven playing field with the rest of Europe in other areas as well... "An articulated truck in Belgium costs €500 a year to tax, the same truck costs £700 in Northern Ireland, while here in this jurisdiction it costs up to €4,000. This is a staggering difference when we are all members of the same EU," Gerry McMahon, a prominent member of the Irish Road Haulage Association from Monaghan says ... He believes that the policy makers at government level do not take into account the implications of policy decisions such as the introduction of a carbon tax and how such a tax impacts on indigenous industry... (Photo: Virginia Transport operates 80 trucks and 300 trailers, and employs 120 people. Its manager says the new carbon tax was not fully thought out)Labels: transport costs
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