EU financial instruments for urban road projects

Priority question for written answer P-000483/2026
to the Commission
Rule 144
Thomas Pellerin-Carlin (S&D), François Kalfon (S&D)

While the European Union is increasingly directing its funding towards sustainable transport, rail, intermodality and reducing road traffic, motorway infrastructure projects are still being planned in a number of major European cities, officially to ease car traffic, including in France.

In view of the above:

• 1.Which EU financial instruments (Connecting Europe Facility, the Cohesion Fund (even if not applicable to a country such as France), the ERDF, InvestEU, etc.) could be used to help fund a motorway infrastructure project in a built-up urban environment, in particular where it requires a new, heavy road infrastructure, e.g. a tunnel under a city that is not in a cross-border area?
• 2.Which specific eligibility criteria would these funds have to meet to be mobilised?

Submitted: 6.2.2026