The Ivo Sanader cabinet decided that 210 million euros would be ensured in the form of a European Investment Bank loan. The government today gave state guarantees for the loan, which is to be granted to the Rijeka-Zagreb Highway company.
Works on the 44.26-kilometre section will start next year and are expected to be completed by the end of 2008, when the 155-kilometre motorway will be a three-lane dual carriageway, Transport and Development Minister Bozidar Kalmeta said at the session in Zagreb.
The government also sent to parliament a bill on the ratification of an agreement with the World Bank on a EUR 67.8-million loan for a project for the development of the national educational system.