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Europe in 2015 is in a bad shape. There are territorial conflicts on the eastern border, which nurture militant regionalism and the return of nationalism all over Europe. The European Union is not able to find appropriate strategies to deal with migrations flows from Africa and the Middle East. The development of transeuropean transport corridors is not addressing such problems. It is an ambitious long term policy to improve accessibility and cohesion. Though there are good and darker sides of developing these corridors. They are briefly addressed. Europe, however, needs more visions, more possible pathways into the future of the European territory, for cohesion of the European space. They are sketched in this concluding chapter.
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Kunzmann, K. (2015). Afterword. TENs and Visions for Cohesion of the European Space. In: Fabbro, S. (eds) Mega Transport Infrastructure Planning. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16396-3_19
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