Luxembourg, 07/10/2005 (Agence Europe) - The European Investment Bank (EIB) has provided CZK 4 billion (some EUR 140 million) for the construction of the D8 motorway connecting Prague with Dresden in Germany and EUR 110 million for the completion of the Prague motorway ring. Both loans constitute second tranches of finance provided by the EIB for the building of those motorway sections on trans-European corridor IV (TEN). The first loan will finance the completion of the D8 motorway joining the Czech capital Prague to the northern border with Germany. The new four-lane road will provide the final 23 km missing motorway link between Prague and Dresden on the pan-European corridor connecting Berlin to Istanbul. The second loan will be used for the construction of the southwest section of the Prague motorway ring that will link the two most important motorways in the Czech Republic: in the west the D5 motorway connecting Prague with the Czech/German border towards Nuremberg; and in the southeast the D1 motorway linking the Czech capital with the country's second biggest city Brno and Slovakia.