is considering where to get money for the project

Instead of accelerating Rail Baltica works – growing anxiety due to delays. In Jonava, the Baltic and Poland Transport Ministers met to discuss the project. The biggest problem is funding that is reluctant to talk about. After a couple of years, the European Union (EU) support will end, and at that time the project will have four times more expensive and late. You will have to look for extra money to continue your work.

« I will not tell real numbers not because they are not, but when you tell the public number, it becomes a problem. There is no shortage of funds today, whether they will be missing later – how to negotiate at the next programming stage with the European Commission, » said Eugenijus Sabutis, Minister of Transport and Communications.

According to the Railway Manager, Lithuania has already secured over $ 1.5 billion in total. for the Rail Baltica project. However, as EU funding approaches, there is a risk that funds will not be sufficient. Several alternatives to funding are being considered.

« Definitely not from private. We’ll talk about the use of funds, military mobility money, CEFO. As we prioritize priorities, we need to survive this period, ”assured Egidijus Lazauskas, CEO of LTG Group.

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Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas said it was almost impossible for Lithuania to find money for the Rail Baltica project.

« If there is no funding, the whole burden, billions of euros, will fall on the shoulders of the national states, and the budgets will not bring such amounts, » the prime minister said.

« As of Wednesday, all countries can apply to the Directorate who is engaged in defense and space.

The locals, next to the new track, criticize the Rail Baltica project. The work is slowly going slow, doubting whether they will be completed.

« I don’t know if I will finish. I don’t expect it. Nothing but patches just, » the man assured.

« Bad. Like all construction in Lithuania, everything is bad, » said another.

The Baltic States signed an agreement to request additional EU funding. It is unofficially stated that the construction of Rail Baltica may take another 10 years due to the re -planning of the trail in Ukraine and the route. The minister hopes to build the remaining 260 kilometers in 5 years. Although the first 150 kilometers were launched as long as 11 years.

« The line was imagined as a high -speed passenger to transport passengers to travel from Tallinn to Warsaw or from Vilnius to Berlin and the like. Now we realize that the main challenge is to apply the whole project to military mobility, » explained E. Sabutis.

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The problem of funding is facing the whole Baltic States – no money is missing not only in Lithuania. The Latvian Minister of Transport and Communications says Europe should pay more attention to Rail Baltica, as it strengthens the security of Europe as a whole.

« In this geopolitically difficult year, this shows the importance of Europe – that our region and this project are a priority for communication, people, cargo and military mobility, » said Latvian Minister of Transport and Communications ATIS Švinka.

For example, in Jonava, one place is exceptional – it collides with an electric train rails with a future European cancer. For the segment of this place – Switzerland -Žeimiai – 10 kilometers of construction are planned to be over 119 million. euros. A number of other work has been planned this year.

« We work with 46 kilometers now. We want to make a contract and design at the end of this year from Kaunas to Poland, » said LTG Group CEO.

To complete the Rail Baltica project by 2030, the Baltic States require an additional $ 10 billion. EUR 4 billion for Lithuania. euros. A total of 870 kilometers of rails should be built.