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According to Kubiv, the macro-regional strategy will ensure compliance with priority areas of cooperation under the Framework Convention on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians.
First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine Stepan Kubiv has signed a declaration of intent to create a new macro-regional strategy of the European Union for the development of the Carpathian region of Ukraine, Poland, Romania, Hungary, and Slovakia.
"This strategy is about Europe becoming stronger when its regions are strong. These are new opportunities for ensuring competitiveness, financial instruments, regional programs for the priority development of states and projects in infrastructure, environment, tourism, science, innovation, and investment," the press service of the Ministry of Economic Development quoted Kubiv as saying.
According to Kubiv, the macro-regional strategy will ensure compliance with the priority areas of cooperation under the Framework Convention on the Protection and Sustainable Development of the Carpathians.
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As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko opened the Beskidy Tunnel, which is the largest infrastructure project over recent decades, on Thursday, May 24.
UNIAN memo. The Beskidy Tunnel is part of Lviv Railways. It is located next to the Volovets Pass. It stretches for 1,750 meters between train stations Beskid and Skotarske.
The tunnel was built back in 1886 and with time its passing capacity became inadequate, so a decision was adopted to build a new one.
The second tunnel was built parallel to the existing tunnel, which can accommodate two tracks and allow speeds of up to 70 km/h. The new tunnel has a length of 1,822 meters and be covered by up to 180 meters of rock. The internal dimensions of 8.5 meters height and 10.5 meters width allow double tracks, and thus more than the mere replacement of the existing old tube. The two tubes are connected by three lugs, the old tunnel then being used as a rescue route.
The tunnel was built with the New Austrian Tunneling Method. It is part of the fifth pan-European transit corridor (Italy-Slovenia-Hungary-Slovakia-Ukraine-Russia).