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El Ministerio de Fomento impulsa la Travesía Central del PirineoThe European Group of economic interest for the crossing Central of the Pyrenees (TCP) EEIG-Pyrenees, has been in Paris held its first meeting, pursuant to the commitment of the Minister of
promotion, José Blanco, who moved last February in Huesca that this first meeting would develop in March. The constituent Assembly will be held in Zaragoza at the end of the month of April.
During the meeting of the members of the EEIG-Pyrenees, progress in the creation of a Steering Committee consisting of the two States, which will have as mission to define guidelines which have to be taken to set up preliminary studies programme. The objective of the curriculum, which will immediately prepare the EEIG-Pyrenees, is moving forward in the realization of the territorial, environmental studies of layout of the project, as well as the socio-economic and financial analysis of the new trans-Pyrenean rail axis of large capacity.