Report recommends building of M-way between Vienna and Gdańsk

A report written for the EU by former commissioner, Karel Van Miert, and published yesterday may dictate the development of the domestic transportation infrastructure until 2020. According to the document, it transpires that the building of a motorway between Vienna and Gdańsk, may be much more important than the construction of a similar road between Warsaw and Berlin, or between Dresden and Kraków. As justification, the author claims that an infrastructure that connects a number of states at once is more important, and the proposed motorway would be finished by 2010. The section between Gdańsk and Katowice will cost EUR 2.754 billion. The Van Miert report will be the basis for making a final decision on this issue this fall, which should then be accepted by EU governments. This will be part of the EU budget for 2007-2013 and priority projects will receive 20% of the financing from a special Brussels fund and loans from the European Investment Bank. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B2) M.M.