The European Commission has selected 134 projects in the field of transport that will receive over seven billion euros in funds Connecting Europe Facility programme. About the 83% of funding will support projects that achieve EU climate goals, improving and modernising the grid of the European Union of Railways, Inland Waterways and maritime services along the trans-European transport network TEN-T. Railway projects will receive 80% of the total funds.

With regard to the main projects concerning Italy, 765 million euros are allocated to the new railway line Turin-Lyon and 86 million at the northern and southern accesses to the Brenner Base Tunnel.