During the visit of EIB vice-president Roman Escolano to Algiers on Thursday 13 July, the European Investment Bank (EIB) and Algerian government signed a cooperation agreement on road safety. A key part of this is to be an EIB-financed study on the safety standards of the Algerian section (between the country's east and west borders, stretching along the Mediterranean coast for 1,500 km) of the trans-Maghreb motorway that links the countries of the Maghreb.
The study will take into account...