Work on an extension of Estonia's rail network to the western town of Haapsalu can be put on hold until the necessary design work has been completed, Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) says.
Discussions on the City of Tallinn's four-year budget strategy mostly revolve around triaging construction projects in the light of soaring inflation, City Council Chair Jevgeni Ossinovski (SDE) says.
Decisions made by the Reform Party in late June which involved scrapping three major infrastructure projects which would have utilized European Union recovery funds are back on the table now Reform is in office with Isamaa and the Social Democrats (SDE).
Finance Minister Keit Pentus-Rosimannus (Reform) said in a lengthy interview with ERR that the quick increase in costs in the public sector necessitates a pay raise. Rosimannus also added that it is too soon to predict whether the budget will be in surplus.
Tallinn Administrative Court has dismissed a joint appeal by the City of Tallinn and the Tallinn Hospital Development Foundation against the government's decision on June 30 to cancel a project to build a new hospital in central Tallinn using EU funds.