During his trip to the alpine Savoie region in eastern France in January, French Prime Minister Édouard Philippe made no public mention of the 26 billion-euro project to build a high-speed train linkup, via a new rail tunnel under the Alps, for passengers and freight traffic between the southern French city of Lyon and the northern Italian city of Turin. It appeared as a significant omission by Philippe, just three months after President Emmanuel Macron’s confirmation, at a summit meeting with Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni in Lyon last September, that the grand project will go ahead.
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