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Scandria Alliance newsletter July 2025
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Scandria Alliance heads into summer with the 2028–2034 EU budget proposal in the backpack
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The Scandria Alliance enters the summer break with new chairs. The recently presented Commission proposal for the 2028–2034 EU budget will continue to keep us busy in the second half of the year.
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During its last meeting, our General Assembly adopted a joint declaration on the future of transport and infrastructure funding and financing. In the declaration, the Alliance members call for a sufficient and reliable financing of European transport infrastructure and strong, centrally managed European funding instruments. In the light of these demands, the Commission’s proposals to retain an independent Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) in the next multi-annual financial framework (MFF) for 2028–2034, to double the CEF transport budget and to increase the military mobility budget tenfold appear positive.
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Nevertheless, many questions remain unanswered: What does the proposed focus of the new CEF on projects with a cross-border dimension and military mobility mean for the realisation of the trans-European transport network (TEN-T) as a whole? How can the interplay between CEF and the proposed National and Regional Partnership Plans (NRP) work in the field of transport and mobility? And how can we take the special requirements of urban nodes along the TEN-T into account?
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Discussions on these questions will continue in the Scandria Alliance under the leadership of our General Assembly’s new chair Åsa Ågren Wikström, who sees the possibility to speak with a strong common voice of Scandria Alliance regions to enhance European connectivity as her chairmanship’s main priority.
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During a high-level policy exchange on 25 June 2025, we explored how to ensure financial stability for a resilient transport system in a Europe that is facing multiple challenges.
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On 25 June 2025, the General Assembly of the Scandria Alliance met in the representation of Brandenburg to the EU.
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Scandria Alliance member regions and major logistic players from these regions were among the exhibitors of the world’s leading trade fair for logistics, mobility, IT, and supply chain management.
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Upcoming
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28 August 2025: Femern Belt Platform plenary session, Copenhagen
29 August 2025: Scandria Alliance Talk on security of supply in times of geopolitical tension, online
17-19 September 2025: European Transport Conference 2025, Antwerp
23-25 September 2025: New Mobility Congress 2025, Katowice
30 September – 2 October 2025: Urban Mobility Days 2025, Vilnius
7-8 October 2025: Baltic Ports Conference 2025, Gdańsk
13-15 October 2025: European Week of Regions and Cities 2025, Brussels
17 October 2025: Scandria Alliance Talk “Building a resilient transport system: the power of combined transport in Europe”, online
28 October 2025: BSSSC Day of Cities and Regions, Sopot
28-30 October 2025: EUSBSR Annual Forum 2025, Sopot
12 November 2025: HyTruck Final Conference, Helsinki
25-26 November 2025: Save the date! EUSALP Annual Forum, Innsbruck
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