The European Commission announced the signing of agreements for the financing of transport infrastructure in Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Ukraine, and Moldova. In July 2025, it was announced that grants worth €2.8 billion from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) would be allocated to TEN-T network development projects.
Poland will receive approximately EUR 452 million in funding for key projects such as:
- the Rail Baltica mainline section connecting the country with the Baltic states (EUR 294 million),
- the Mikołów – Czech border line (EUR 18.4 million),
- the implementation of the ETCS system in the core TEN-T network across seven voivodeships (EUR 94.9 million),
- the development of railway infrastructure serving the ports of Świnoujście, Szczecin and Police (EUR 44.3 million).
In Slovakia, four projects with a total value of EUR 135 million are being financed to support cross-border connections between eastern Slovakia, Ukraine and the Czech Republic. This includes, among other things:
- the modernisation of the Žilina – Košice line (EUR 96.7 million),
- the modernisation of the key Košice – Čierna nad Tisou connection (EUR 27.3 million).
In Romania, Ukraine, and Moldova, three key railway projects are receiving financial support:
- EUR 73.5 million for the construction of a European-gauge railway line connecting Poland with Lviv in Ukraine,
- EUR 45 million for a railway corridor project in Romania linking the port of Constanța and Bucharest in the south with Ukraine and Moldova in the north,
- EUR 33 million for the modernisation and electrification of the cross-border railway section Iași (Romania) – Ungheni (Moldova).
The Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) is the main funding instrument for the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T). For the next budget period (2028–2034), the European Commission has proposed doubling the CEF budget, allocating more than EUR 51 billion for the implementation of cross-border projects.
