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At inauguration of Lötschberg Tunnel, Jacques Barrot calls on Member States to speed up completion of priority TEN-T projects

Brussels, 15/06/2007 (Agence Europe) - At the inauguration of the Lötschberg rail tunnel (Switzerland), on Friday 15 June, after more than 20 years of work, the vice-president of the Commission with responsibility for Transport, Jacques Barrot, called upon the member states to “knuckle down” increasingly to the building projects which will support modal transfers from road to rail, and to “build new rail tunnels: the Brenner (linking Germany with Italy) and the Mont Cenis (France -...

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