Transportation
The Tunnel Project That Could Reshape the European Map
The long-planned Fehmarn Belt Fixed Link between Denmark and Germany moved one step closer to reality this month.
Denmark’s population may live mostly on smallish islands, but the country seems determined not to let geography get in its way.
It was in 1995 that Denmark first anchored itself to the rest of Scandinavia when it linked up to Sweden via the Øresund Bridge. Now the country is about to embark on yet another massive, geographically transformative engineering project: a tunnel beneath the Baltic Sea that will connect Denmark to Germany between the islands of Lolland and Fehmarn.