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Boc wants high-speed rail link Budapest to Bucharest

Mediafax

Romania’s Prime Minister Emil Boc said today (Thurs) that the Paris-Strasbourg-Bratislava high-speed railway must be extended to Budapest, Bucharest and Constanta on the Black Sea Coast.

That investment project must become a priority of the Danube Strategy, he said during the Summit of Danubian countries in Budapest.

According to Boc, extension of the high-speed rail line to link Paris, the "heart of Europe," and Southern and Eastern Europe should become one of the biggest and most-important projects of the Danube Strategy.

In November 2007, the Romanian and Hungarian governments agreed to work together on a high speed rail line on the Budapest-Bucharest-Constanta route and to link it to the high-speed railway on the Paris-Strasburg-Stuttgart-Vienna-Bratislava-Budapest route.

Romanian government officials said at the time that construction would begin in 2015 but that financing was the main problem, with the cost estimated to be several billion Euros.

Romanian authorities said in autumn 2008 that Romania and Hungary would apply for EU funding and rely on Austria's help for a pre-feasibility study for the project.

On 24 and 25 February, Boc attended two meetings of prime ministers in Budapest on topics like the Danube River and energy.

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