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Connecting Europe Facility - Streamlining measures for the realisation of the TEN-T - Railway safety and signalling: Assessing the state of play of the ERTMS deployment (debate)
The approval of the agreement on changes to the functioning of the Connecting Europe Facility must give new impetus to a more efficient use of the EU budget for infrastructure projects across Europe, including in Slovakia. Of the more than 30 billion envelopes, it will go most to transport, less to energy and something also to digitalisation, i.e. to areas where huge investments are needed all over Europe, but mainly in countries like Slovakia. That is why the Slovak government and the competent actors in Slovakia must ensure the submission of the highest quality transport and energy interconnection projects with neighbouring countries, whether they are motorways or electric interconnectors connecting Slovakia with Poland, Hungary or the Czech Republic. Unlike traditional EU funds, the principle of using or losing funds is also applied here, and therefore strengthening the administrative capacity to absorb funds is absolutely necessary.