Poland fails to use EU railway funding

According to a report put out by the Polish government, the country has made insufficient use of EU funding intended for railway infrastructure projects between 2007 and 2013. With an eye to the most recent train accident the left-liberal news portal Polityka Online calls for better organisation: "Hardly any sector in Poland is more in need of investment than the railways. Nevertheless we are having considerable difficulty spending the EU funding earmarked for this purpose. The railway company's biggest problem was delays in preparing projects. ... Can this money still be accessed? If the EU decides to keep it at the disposal of Poland's railways, we are in dire need of different selection criteria for projects. Until now Brussels has only financed large-scale modernisations. Smaller ones, by contrast, we paid for on our own. Now the railways also wants to spend EU money on simpler, quicker and less expensive maintenance and repairs."

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