Romania's and Bulgaria's membership means that the EU now has borders with the Black Sea and that almost the entire course of the Danube has become an internal waterway. In 2004, the Commission approved a list of 30 priority projects for the European transport network, including the new Member States.

Under the Union's neighbourhood policy, the Commission has proposed the extension of the main European transport axes to the neighbouring countries. In view of the five transnational axes identified in 2005 by the High-Level Group and the proposed revision of the European transport projects in 2008, can the Commission indicate through which new transport projects (and related funds) the Union intends to take advantage of its access to the Black Sea, and which new priority European transport projects concern neighbourhood links with Moldova and Ukraine?