Your Royal Highness, Ministers,
Ladies and gentlemen,
Thank you for inviting me here today to share my thoughts with all of you, on behalf of the European Commission, on a topic that touches all of us – the lives lost each day on the roads around the world – from here in Stockholm to my hometown in Romania, or anywhere else.
Each year around the globe, 1.35 million people die from road accidents and the EU accounts for 25,000 of those deaths.
Perhaps a part of the problem is that we have all just got too used to this daily routine of death and injury on our roads. I, for one, find it unacceptable that so many people are dying from road accidents every year. They are dying on our publicly managed roads. Continuă lectura „Third Global Conference on Road Safety – Comisar Adina Valean, discurs 19 Februarie 2020”