LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), December 3 (SeeNews) – In LJUBLJANA story “Slovenia tables projects worth 4 bln euro for co-financing under Juncker's plan - media,” please read in the first paragraph “...4 billion euro ($ 4.9 billion) ...” instead of “...4 billion euro ($ 3.25 billion) ...” (corrects wrong conversion).
A corrected version follows:
Slovenia will ask the European Union (EU) for co-financing infrastructure projects worth a total 4 billion euro ($ 4.9 billion) under the three-year investment plan of the European Commission's new president, Jean-Claude Juncker, local media reported.
The projects include a railway section of the Baltic-Adriatic Corridor, the Drazenci-Gruskovje highway, the second tube of the Karavanke tunnel, hydroelectric power plants on the river Sava, daily Delo said on Wednesday. These projects have already been planned for co-financing from the EU budget in the 2014-2020 period.
Juncker has proposed a 315 billion euro investment plan to create jobs and boost the economy of the bloc, of which 21 billion euro will be public money and the rest will come from private investors.
Slovenian infrastructure minister Peter Gaspersic, who is in Brussels at a EU ministers meeting on transport infrastructure and networks, told Delo that Slovenia expects projects worth around 1 billion euro to be included in Juncker's list. Depending on the number of residents Slovenia would get around 600 million euro or 200 million euro per year.
Priority will be given to projects already prepared and to those of a wider European importance. "To attract foreign investors to invest in selected projects, we need to offer them something in return," Gasparsic said as quoted by Delo.
($ = 0.808 euro)