EUROPE EU to kick-start recovery with EUR 2.2 bln for transport

Infrastructure

20 July 2020

Nathan North
managing editor (English section)

The EU is to invest EUR 2.2 bln in key transport projects in all member states as part of its economic recovery plans.

The projects, which will receive funding through the Connecting Europe Facility, include 55 rail infrastructure schemes, which will receive EUR 1.6 bln of the total funding. In the CEE region, the railway projects include the completion of the Rail Baltica network connecting the Baltic States with the rest of the EU (EUR 183.79 mln), the modernisation of the E75 railway in Poland between Czyżew and Białystok and between Ełk and Trakiszki (recommended funding of EUR 385.72 mln and EUR 36.68 m

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