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The Council of the European Union has adopted the EU’s Connecting Europe Facility 2.0 (CEF 2.0) programme to fund the development of high-performing, sustainable infrastructure in the fields of transport, digital connectivity and energy. The CEF 2.0 is worth €33.71bn, with €25.81bn going to transport, €5.84bn to energy and €2.07bn to digital. It will run from 2021–27. The Council of the EU's vote will now need to be adopted by the European Parliament at second reading, before being published in the EU Official Journal. The regulation will enter into force the day after its publication and will apply retroactively from 1 January 2021.
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