Dominique Riquet

Member of the European Parliament, Member of the committee of Transport and Tourism

Dominique Riquet has been a Member of the European Parliament since 2009, where he specialises in transport, industry and infrastructure financing. He has recently been appointed rapporteur of the revision of the Trans-European Transport Network, and is President of the long term and sustainable investment intergroup, which he founded. Before his European mandate, he was mayor of Valenciennes and practiced urological surgery.

More than ever, in the context of the ecological transition of the transport sector, the time has come to make the modal shift policy led by the European Union a reality. The European institutions, and more specifically the European Parliament, are very favourable to accelerating the deployment of ERTMS. The revision of the TEN-T regulation currently underway is an opportunity to review the problems that arise and to increase our level of ambition.