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THE GENERAL ELECTION campaign did not deter the transport committee of the European Parliament from paying a threeday visit to London just before the Spring Bank Holiday weekend.
Nor did it prevent Transport Secretary David Howell from meeting the Committee, though the meeting was much shorter than originally planned.
The committee's main formal business in London was the approval of a report by Belgian Christian Peoples' Party MEP Marcel Vandewiele, on the Channel tunnel. Committee chairman Horst Seefeld, a German Socialist MEP, said that the Parliament regarded the tunnel as much more than a transport link. It was also a symbol of European unity.
The committee's report, which is likely to be approved by the full Parliament next week, states a preference for a double railway tunnel, with provision for a vehicle shuttle. It calls on the British and French Governments to make a firm political commitment.
This would give the green light to the banks to provide the necessary capital.