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Across Europe, governments are spending billions of dollars to update public transport and improve energy provision. Many of these projects are complex feats of engineering, constructing bigger, longer, and deeper infrastructure, the likes of which have never been seen before.
But Rome wasn't built in a day, as the saying goes, and these massive megaprojects come with outsized price tags that often grow well beyond their original budgets.
Read on to find out discover where the biggest projects are underway in Europe, ranked from least to most expensive, and find out whether they'll be delivered on time and to budget. Spoiler alert: lots won't be...
All dollar amounts in US dollars.
Nicole Robinson
26 November 2024
Features
You seem to have missed ITER off the list. That may be because you can't decide which estimate of the cost (currently) to use, but the lowest estimate, by ITER itself is £22Bn. The more realistic costs are between £45Bn and 65Bn. It is only a research project, and has already been overtaken by a number of other large-scale fusion ressearch project, none of which have cost anything like ITER.
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