Reuters: The cost of linking up Europe’s transport network has risen 16.8 percent from original projections to nearly 400 billion euros ($618 billion), and big sections are behind schedule, an EU report said on Tuesday. Integrating trans-European roads and railways is seen as vital to the growth of the internal market within the 27-member bloc, as well as to boosting employment and economic output. “It is very clear today that significant parts of the 30 priority projects will not …