Members of the European Parliament called for greater funding for civil and military transport infrastructure at a plenary session debate in Strasbourg on Wednesday 2 April. They voiced support for expanding the ‘Connecting Europe Facility’ (CEF).
“The CEF is four to five times oversubscribed and the investment gap is huge”, warned Jens Gieseke (EPP, German). “The Council’s proposal to reduce the budget line by 80% sends the wrong signal”, he said. He would like to see a...