The decision of the EU Parliament's Transport Commission to suspend the protracted negotiations aimed at liberalizing European ports - including an increased degree of financial transparency in transactions between the ports and individual member states, along with a modernization of state subsidy rules for ports - could kick the doors wide open for a new beginning to the negotiations in late 2014, says the EU Commission after the Parliament's Transport Commission on March 13. informed EU Commissioner for Transport, Siim Kallas, that there was no longer sufficient support to bring the proposal to a vote before the Parliamentary elections in May.