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Matej Zakonjsek, Director of the Transport Community: Transport Directly Improves Lives of Our Citizens

We are assisting all regional partners, including Serbia, to consider and implement EU legislation in the field of transport and we are supporting projects which are connecting the Western Balkans with itself as well as using the EU

The region has so much potential and something can see concrete advantages of one's work. All the measures that make transportation of products and mobility of people smooth and safer directly improve the daily lives in our citizens. What we do in transport is easy to describe, and citizens immediately notice when they cut back time at the border crossings, when their commute to work gets shorter, or when their roads are very well maintained. The same is true when our policies fail.

You have recently been appointed Director of the Transport Community. What is the Transport Community, and what's its importance to Serbia?

The aim of our organization may be the integration of transport markets of Western Balkan regional partners into the EU. We're assisting all regional partners, including Serbia, to consider and implement EU legislation in neuro-scientific transport and we are supporting projects that are connecting the Western Balkans with itself in addition to using the EU. Transport policies that are according to European legislation and standards will pave the best way to seamless integration of the Western Balkans transport markets into the EU, that will in turn offer sustainable connectivity to the citizens and start up business opportunities for businesses in the area. To accomplish this we have to build, rehabilitate, and fasten transport infrastructure, based on a forward-looking transport policy.

I am extremely pleased and proud that the Headquarters of our organization relies around the Western Balkans – in Belgrade. This was some pot decision by all six regional partners and the EU. As Serbian PM Ana Brnabi

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