Baltic States: Brussels vows extra funding for Rail Baltica project

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…

Baltic States: Estonian and Latvian ministers set out first stages of air defense procurement

Minister of Defense Hanno Pevkur (Reform) set out on August 1 the initial steps in a joint Estonian-Latvian mid-range air defense systems procurement, joined by his Latvian opposite number. The procurement follows the announcement that Estonia will be buying, in a separate, $500-million procurement, six M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) launchers and related…