News Digest Item
21 Sep 2016

“Deutsche Bahn gets 2.4 billion euros extra”

Süddeutsche Zeitung

Federal transport minister Alexander Dobrindt “unexpectedly” plans to invest an additional 2.4 billion euros in German rail company Deutsche Bahn (DB) over the next four years, writes Thomas Öchsner in Süddeutsche Zeitung. “It is my goal to further strengthen the rail system and to achieve necessary investments at Deutsche Bahn,” said Dobrindt, who had published his Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 in August. Government sources confirmed that finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble had already agreed to the additional investments, writes Öchsner.

Read the article in German here.

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