The Commission today proposed to amend its December 2021 proposal on the revision of the TEN-T Regulation. Since December, Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has redefined the geopolitical landscape, highlighting the EU’s vulnerability to unforeseen events beyond the Union’s borders. The major impacts on global markets, such as global food security, have underlined that the Union’s internal market and transport network cannot be looked at in isolation when it comes to Union policy. Better connections with the EU’s neighbouring partner countries are now needed more than ever before. (....)