by Przemysław Myszka

The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has released an update to its 2020 special report that inspected eight so-called 'transport flagship infrastructures' (TFIs) - mega-projects of the Core part of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T).

That publication and its latest update share the same conclusions: taken together, the TFIs are (seriously) delayed and cost (far) more than initially calculated.

While the 2020 report considered meeting the 2030 deadline for the Core Network to be at serious risk, the update does not beat about the bush: the EU's most fundamental transport infrastructure won't run at full capacity come the next decade.

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