The European Commission vows to provide additional funding for the construction of Rail Baltica, a high-speed railway project linking Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
Last summer, the Commission allocated more than 350 million euros for the project, and plans to continue doing so in the future, according to Radvile Morkunaite-Mikuleniene, chair of Lithuania’s parliamentary Committee on European Affairs.
The MP also announced plans to allow design tenders to be launched on a country-by-country basis, rather than via the RB Rail joint venture, to speed up the project’s implementation.
Attending the committee’s closed-door meeting on September 16, Catherine Trautmann, the European coordinator of the North-Sea Baltic TEN-T corridor, promised that the Commission would provide additional funding, according to Radvile Morkunaite-Mikuleniene.
“We still have to justify the increased costs to the European Commission, but I am personally inspired by the Commission’s attitude towards the importance of this project and its speedy completion,” Morkunaite-Mikuleniene said. (LRT/Business World Magazine)
