Romania, April 23 -- European Investment Bank (EIB) Vice-President Ioannis Tsakiris today visited a site near the Romanian city of Curtea de Arge? where a section of the country's first motorway across the Carpathian Mountains is being built. He observed work on a tunnel that is part of the planned A1 motorway, which is due to receive EIB financing of up to €1 billion.The highway will span more than 122 kilometres and connect the cities of Pite?ti northwest of Bucharest and Sibiu in central Romania. The route runs through Curtea de Arge?, which is located in a valley in the Southern Carpathians along the Arge? River. The tunnel there will be almost 1.4 km long and have two lanes in each direction.The A1 motorway, scheduled to be compl...