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Rail line project to be grant aided by Brussels

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  • #32
    rcunning03
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    347 mph = 558 kph (i think)


    what is this legacy network


  • #33
    Floater
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    Originally posted by rcunning03
    347 mph = 558 kph (i think)


    what is this legacy network

    The existing system that the new train has to work with.

    It is back to integration again.


    Floater


  • #34
    Qadhafi
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    Ireland threatens to scuttle EU treaty as €600m grant is agreed

    Conor Sweeney
    in Brussels
    the Irish Independent
    6-December-2003
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    CRUCIAL road and rail link projects throughout Ireland yesterday secured EU support which should see them receive up to €600m in funding.

    Support for the massive cash injection for Ireland came from EU transport ministers yesterday - even as Ireland threatened to derail the proposed EU Constitutional Treaty over the inclusion of a mutual defence pact.

    In Ireland, the Belfast-Dublin-Cork road and rail links are on the current shortlist of 29 projects that were approved yesterday.

    The separate Dublin to Galway road and rail links also secured a crucial amendment that should see this project earmarked for aid when it comes up for review in two years time.

    The single largest EU grant will be towards the completion of the Dublin to Cork motorway, which will receive €300m in EU aid.

    Upgraded rail links, which will cost around €300m, will also receive around €60m in the next two years.

    Transport Minister Seamus Brennan cautioned that this provisional aid package had a "heavy health warning" since it must still secure support in the European Parliament.

    Meanwhile, Europe's four neutral states - including Ireland - have warned they will reject the EU Constitutional Treaty unless it is changed to take account of their non-Nato membership and a mutual defence pact is removed from the current text.

    The ultimatum came yesterday as the main author of the draft treaty warned that the 15 member States should shelve the constitution completely, rather than "mutilate" it.

    Just a week before the final round of talks on the treaty, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern also urged the current Italian presidency to reach a deal at next weekend's Brussels summit, rather than pass it on to Ireland next year.

    In an unusual alliance, the foreign ministers of Finland, Ireland, Sweden, and Austria have all demanded that the current text - which would bind all EU member states into a mutual defence pact - must be changed.

    "Provisions containing formal binding security guarantees would be inconsistent with our security policy or with our constitutional requirements," the ministers warned.

    They want to change the draft and delete an obligation that they "must" come to the military aid of another country. Instead, they argue the Treaty should state that a country "may request" help. The change was essential, but did not mean that four countries do not support a swift agreement of the Constitutional Treaty, said Foreign Affairs Minister Brian Cowen.


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