The European Union will support the modernization of Greece’s railway system after the train accident that killed 57 people last week.
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced that she spoke to Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis about this this morning.
Von der Leyen said in a statement on social media that he and Mitsotakis discussed technical support that the EU could give Greece in order to modernize its railways and increase security.
Von der Leyen stated that experts from the EU Commission and the EU Railways Agency will go to Athens this week, and that railway safety is the top priority.
Last week, 57 people, most of them young people, were killed when two trains collided near the city of Larissa in northern Greece.
After the accident, there was criticism that Greece’s 2,500 km railway network was the system most in need of modernization in the EU, and that public investment had not been made in years to modernize the railways.
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