Inforegio-Newsroom

A new episode of Smart Regions.

The Commission has approved investments of more than €114 million from the Cohesion Fund for the purchase of new electric trains in the Riga and Pieriga region, in Latvia; more than €158 million from the Cohesion Fund for the electrification of the railway section between Kaišiadorys and Klaipėda, in Lithuania, and more than €60 million from the European Regional Development Fund to improve the protection against floods in the Karlovac-Sisak Area, in Croatia.

The Commission has approved an investment of over €80 million from the Cohesion Fund to improve train connections for passenger and freight transport in the region of Northern Great Plain in Hungary.

The transnational Interreg North-West Europe programme supports the Greener Waterway Infrastructure (Green WIN) project’s mission to decarbonise water transport.

The 8th Cohesion Report shows that Cohesion policy has helped to narrow territorial and social disparities between regions in the EU. Thanks to Cohesion funding, the GDP per capita of less developed regions is expected to increase by up to 5% by 2023.

Guided by Interreg Central Europe’s motto “Taking cooperation forward”, the project successfully tackled the challenge of establishing public transport links between regional, peripheral and cross-border areas .

In order to allow people living in sparsely populated areas to travel and move in an eco-friendly way, the European project “Mittstråket” has installed charging stations for electric vehicles along the “Middle Route” E14”.

With about 30% of the EU population living in internal border regions, our new publication “Study on providing public transport in cross-border regions – mapping of existing services and legal obstacles” contributes to the growing recognition of the importance of cross-border public transport services (CBPT) and their role in facilitating cross-border activities central to the development of border regions.