Baltic leaders warn not to cut EU funding for Rail Baltica project
2021-01-26
LETA/BNS/TBT Staff
VILNIUS – Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda and the Latvian and Estonian prime ministers have called on the prime minister of Portugal, which hold the rotating EU presidency, to defend funding for the Rail Baltica railway project in the new budget during negotiations with the European Parliament.
The Brussels-based news website Politico was the first to report on this request. It described the joint letter as a threat to veto the approval of the EU recovery fund, if funding for the Rail Baltica project was not secured.