The prime ministers of the Baltic States assured that the Rail Baltica railway from Tallinn to the Polish border would be completed on schedule, BNS reported. Speaking after a joint meeting in Riga, the three prime ministers pledged to secure maximum EU funding for the project. Estonian Prime Minister Kristen Michal stressed that the railway must be completed by 2030. Latvian Prime Minister Evika Silina said that her government was in talks with contractors on cutting costs for the project, possibly through public-private partnerships. She said that state-owned railway company Latvijas Dzelzcels would take on part of the construction work. Meanwhile, Estonia’s Minister of Infrastructure, Kuldar Leis, denied reports in Latvian media that a section of the Rail Baltica line in northern Latvia would remain on Russian-gauge tracks so as to save money, ERR reported. He affirmed that Rail Baltica’s entire main line in all three countries would be built with European standard gauge tracks.
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