Brussels, 28/03/2013 (Agence Europe) - On 25 and 27 March, the European Commission approved investment financed by cohesion policy for two projects, one in Romania and one in Italy.
Investment of more than €145 million from the cohesion fund will go to an environmental project along the Black Sea Coast in South East Romania. The aim is to halt erosion on a stretch of coastline just over seven kilometres long. Funding will be for coastal protection infrastructure.
The Italian port of Augusta, Sicily, will be expanded to take in larger container ships. The European Commission has approved investment of €35.8 million from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) to this end. The project is part of a wide-ranging framework of infrastructure works for intermodal transport in eastern Sicily, with the port of Augusta a part of the trans-European transport network. (MD/transl.jl)