"The European Union's Marco Polo programmes, which aim to shift freight from road to rail, should be scrapped, according to a report by the European Court of Auditors. “The programmes were ineffective as they did not meet the targets, little impact was achieved in shifting freight off the roads and there were no data to assess...environmental benefits,” Ville Itälä, the auditor responsible for the report, said on Monday (15 July)." (Quoted from article)