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R1 motorway: first of three road PPPs |
At the end of August the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development signed up as one of the main lenders for the first ever public-private partnership road project in Slovakia, emphasizing the banks importance as a provider of funding for groundbreaking infrastructure projects in central and eastern Europe.
The London-based supranational committed 200 million to a senior term facility totalling 1 billion that will cover most of the forecast 1.3 billion cost of the R1 motorway.
The project will...