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Article: Row brews over Euro transport
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 23, 1994
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BY THE end of this year the new high-speed train links from
Brussels and Paris to the Channel Tunnel should be fully
operational. But they are only a tiny part of an infrastructure
development scheme that all EU countries would like to see built,
yet are reluctant to finance.
Growing tension between those who cannot pay and those who will
not, risks degenerating into a full-blown row at the Corfu summit
that begins tomorrow.
The groundwork for a publicly and privately funded
Trans-European transport network was set out in the Maastricht
treaty. But despite the priority given to projects in the EU
Commission's blueprint to revive growth, competitiveness and
employment, implementation has ...