In Central and Eastern European countries ambitious development projects are launched. Feasibility at the level of political decisions is taken as ensured and grants seems to be available. Five year motorway construction programmes are suggested, sophisticated financing techniques are advertized. Experience of four decades and five years long practice is available in several Central and Eastern European countries to study the long term results of this strategy. Trade and industry managements in these countries in transition seek for a comfortable infrastructure environment as a precursor to being competitive on the world market. Capital inflow requires appropriate transport services, as well. As a consequence, social and economic ambitions arise and are reflected in declarations and efforts of many countries in transition to close up, to keep up to the EU-standards. But a long way has still to go.
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