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construction of additional infrastructures should not take priority over the much needed
maintenance of already existing roads and rail lines of regional importance.
In sum, while from the point of view of the Commission, the TINA process was
an attempt to politically and scientifically justify their foreseen emphasis on international
corridors with regard to future ISPA grant funding, from the point of view of the
participating CEE governments, TINA was their best chance to “amend” the Helsinki
Corridor commitments and to make a case for the inclusion of additional national priority
networks. As we will see in our analysis of the Polish and Hungarian ISPA transport
grants, the backbone corridor prioritization proved to be a hard one to undo.