Special Report: New EU states struggle to spend Brussels billions
1 of 12. A train enters the Warszawa Wschodnia station in Warsaw May 15, 2012. Brussels promised billions of euros to revamp eastern Europe's railways.
BRUSSELS/WARSAW (Reuters) - It was meant to be one of the great rewards of membership. As the European Union expanded eastward over the past decade, Brussels set aside billions of euros to improve infrastructure - especially the fading communist-era railways - in 10 new member states.
Credit: Reuters/Kacper Pempel
Anthony Deutsch and Marcin Goettig
BRUSSELS/WARSAW
Thu Jun 21, 2012 7:26am EDT
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