European Parliament
Sterckx (ELDR ).
(NL)
Madam President, I wanted to say this a minute ago, during the debate, straight after Mr Dillen’s speech. In it, he made a passionate plea for the ‘Iron Rhine’ railway connection between the port of Antwerp and the Ruhr area. I wanted to point out that, when, a year or 18 months ago, we discussed a Commission proposal to extend the TEN projects – a proposal which did not make it through in the end, and which has now been replaced by a new one – I tabled an amendment to include the Iron Rhine as a matter of priority. I just wanted to put on the record that Mr Dillen’s predecessors abstained on that proposal back then.

