EU allocates record €7 billion for transport infrastructure projects

The European Commission has selected 134 transport projects that will receive more than €7 billion of grants from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF). Around 83% of this amount will go to projects aimed at achieving the EU’s climate goals as well as improving and modernising the network of railways, inland waterways and maritime routes along the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).

Several of the selected projects will increase the capacity of the EU-Ukraine Solidarity Lanes, created to facilitate imports and exports between Ukraine and the EU.

These projects include:
– Improving road transport infrastructure at border crossings between Ukraine, Moldova and Romania;
– work to increase the capacity of the railway border crossing between Hungary and Ukraine;
– a new section of the railway in Poland, extending it to the border with Ukraine;
– research and work on the integration of the Ukrainian railway system into the EU.