inter-city flight

Collision of powered aircraft in flight with tall building

To strengthen and develop a real sense of partnership between cities or large towns and their neighbouring settlements the EESC supports the recommendations of the 2016 R.E.D document, ‘Making Europe Grow with its Rural Territories’, and the Carnegie Trust’s Twin Town pilot project.

Work needs to be done to develop a real sense of partnership between cities or large towns and their neighbouring settlements to share on mutually accepted terms a sense of belonging, branding, and joint investment.

Other assisted projects are intended to improve communications and trade between peripheral regions and the main centres of economic activity within the countries concerned, and to improve the continuity of the networks close to urban centres.

Insists that, despite the requisite major investment, a number of important and tangible benefits stem from harmonisation, including flight optimisation, fuel efficiency, noise reduction, less air pollution and a reduced impact on climate change, as well as the flexible and safe use of a less fragmented sky; highlights the efficiency that greater civil-military coordination would achieve, since using joint infrastructure would result in cost-cutting; emphasises that enhanced interoperability between Member States and the realisation of FABs would also produce benefits in terms of crossborder operations;