Det er faktisk lidt løjerligt, når EU sætter sig to vigtige mål, for det første i Lissabon, hvad vores kontinents konkurrenceevne angår, og for det andet i Göteborg, hvad bæredygtigheden for den økonomiske udvikling på vores kontinent angår, at der er mange modsigelser i trafikpolitikken, mange meget forskellige investeringer og retninger, at vejene stadig ikke - vi håber, at det sker snart - påtager sig deres del af udgifterne nogenlunde retfærdigt, f.eks. i forbindelse med direktivet om omkostninger for landevejstransport.
When the European Union has set itself two important objectives - the first in Lisbon, concerning the competitiveness of our continent, and the second, which has since been insufficiently implemented, in Gothenburg, concerning the sustainability of economic development on our continent - it is rather strange that there are already many contradictions in transport policy, in terms of many very different investments and trends, and of the fact that - although we hope this will soon happen - roads are, to some extent, still not paying their way in the light, for example, of the Road Costs Directive.