Weekend traffic bans and traffic jams are a curse to road transport.

Urban traffic in particular is the main focus for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from traffic.

In other words, freight traffic, especially transit freight traffic, is growing massively.

The growth of air traffic is at the expense of rail traffic and the environment.

Traffic is a real challenge.

We want open digital communications.

Good communications are a vital necessity in these areas.

We cannot, however, simply concentrate on wireless communications.

Fifteen separate national electronic communications markets cannot work.

We are discussing one of these communications today.

Road transport always seemed to cause far more pollution than rail transport.

Some people made the point that carcass transport should replace live animal transport.

This makes international transport both more expensive and more complicated than domestic transport.

That takes the burden off overland transport by adding another link to the chain of intermodal transport.

The same conditions must apply to passenger transport as apply to freight transport.

Free trade is not the end; free trade is a means to an end.

Take the trade agreements.

This is a continuing and despicable trade.

Trade in environmental assets must be fair.

It pursues an aggressive external trade policy.