Approval for the world's longest combined road and rail tunnel is ready to be signed, although some of its funding may now be in doubt after a ruling in the Court of Justice of the European Union. The Fehmarnbelt tunnel is designed to link Germany and Denmark, and the Ministry of Transport of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, has said that the plan approval of the Fehmarnbelt tunnel is ready to be signed. In the weeks before Christmas, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) gave a verdict on a complaint by ferry companies Scandlines and Stena Lines regarding the European Commission's approval of state aid to the Fehmarnbelt project. Scandlines said that the CJEU had "cancelled the approval" of the Fehmarn connection's financing model. Domenico Campogrande is to be the next director general of FIEC (the European Construction Industry Federation), and will take over from Ulrich Paetzold on 1 July, 2019. The FIEC steering committee unanimously decided to appoint Campogrande, and presented its decision to the general assembly. Campogrande studied economics, and has been working for FIEC since 1994. He was responsible for economic and legal affairs until 2007, and since then has been the director for social affairs. FIEC has 31 national member federations in 27 European countries - 24 EU, two within EFTA, and Turkey.
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