India, March 17 -- The Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal intends to connect the Black, Baltic and North seas for navigation

Environmental organisations from across central and eastern Europe have criticised a major project intending to link three rivers and provide seamless navigation between three of Europe's peripheral seas, according to a statement.

The Danube-Oder-Elbe Canal intends to connect the Danube, Oder and Elbe rivers and thus provide another navigable link from the Black Sea to the North and Baltic Seas.

However, environmental organisations from Germany, Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Austria, wrote a joint letter to the European Union's Commissioners for Environment, Virginijus Sinkevi?ius, and for Transport, Adina V?lean ...