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The Commission is asking for countries to apply for grants to build European transport infrastructure.
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Concerns over new member states' road schemes
Environmental NGOs from central and eastern Europe are asking the Commission to keep a closer watch on major road schemes that involve private funding.
Commission looking to introduce climate in transport TENs policy
Future funding for trans-European transport networks should be determined by climate concerns, according to an EU green paper published earlier this month.
Augustow by-pass ‘illegal’ but campaigners fear wetlands threatened by new scheme
The highest administrative court in Poland has ruled that the controversial Augustow by-pass planned to cut through pristine and protected wetlands in the Rospuda Valley is illegal. But environmental groups are warning that the Polish government is trying to 're-brand' the route under a different road scheme.
EIA cut down
The Spanish government says it wants to cut back on environmental impact assessments to help the construction industry.
Even urban road projects must have environmental assessment
The European Court of Justice has confirmed a decision made earlier this year that urban road building schemes are covered by EU environmental impact assessment rules and cannot be exempted by splitting them into several smaller projects.
Money for rail
The Commission should give at least 40% of transport infrastructure funding to rail projects in order to boost railfreight, says the European Parliament’s transport committee.
Anger at new Baltic bridge
Environmental groups have reacted angrily to the news that Denmark and Germany have signed an agreement to build the Fehmarn bridge, a 20km crossing over the Baltic Sea linking the two countries.
EIA for urban roads
Work on the northern stretch of the M30 motorway around Madrid is being held up following an opinion from the European Court of Justice that says urban road schemes must be subjected to Environmental Impact Assessment.
EU money putting at risk protected nature site
A new analysis suggests that EU funding for transport projects is putting at risk more than a thousand nature areas in Europe that are supposedly under EU protection.