ABSTRACT
Europe is in a state of flux. Interaction and communication are the essential conditions for the new edifice of Europe. All European countries, regions and cities are witnessing nowadays an unprecedented dynamics as a result of both integrating and widening forces which position also Nordic, Central and Eastern European as well as Mediterranean countries much more clearly on the European map. It hardly needs any argumentation that the socioeconomic and (geo)political restructuring in Europe will exert profound impacts in the next decades. Transport and communication will play a strategic structuring role as the pivot of new European developments ranging from local to transnational scales. European networks will form a connecting system between various regions in a heterogeneous European space, not only in a geographical but also in a socioeconomic sense. Consequently, Europe will likely exhibit a variety of appearances as a result of various driving forces and varied national and regional policies embedded in a globalization trend.
