Europe: Member of European Parliament (MEP)- Elena Kountoura took to social media and expressed pleasure after the European Commission agreed to establish a European road transport organization. The decision has been announced by the new European Road Safety Coordinator, Kristian Schmidt, in response to Kountoura during her intervention in TRAN Committee.
He announced that the Commission has been starting processes for establishing a European road transport organization. It was a key request of MEP Elena Kountoura in her report on road safety in the committee.
She added, “The new European Road Safety Coordinator, Kristian Schmidt, announced at the #TRAN committee that the Commission is starting processes for establishing a road transport organization. It was a key request in my report on road safety, and it is a very important victory for the European Parliament.”
While responding to the related statement by Elena Kountoura, the new European Coordinator for Rad Safety Schmidt announced that the Commission is starting procedures for the establishment of an organization for road transport.
MEP also expressed her satisfaction after her request had been accepted by the Commission. She stated that it is an important success of the European Parliament, and the step will mark the decisive development for the support of the road and transport policy of the European Union.
During her intervention at TRAN, MEP asked the Coordinator what there should be given importance to road safety, and the establishment of road safety emerged out the need of an hour. The decision will give impetus to the European policy for road safety.
The Commission has started the process for the establishment of a European road transport organization, one of the main requests that the SYRIZA-PS MEP submitted in the report that she prepared as European Parliament rapporteur on road safety until 2030 and which has been adopted as a resolution.
During her intervention in discussion with Ukrainian Minister of Infrastructure Mustafa Nayyem, she also extended support for transport workers in Ukraine who continue to courageously and courageously carry out their work for the seamless transport of products into the EU and around the world are entitled to maximum protection and must be secured of their labour and social rights. “
