Estonia hopes to receive around EUR 6bn more from than it pays to the EU’s budget for 2028-2034, Finance Minister Jürgen Ligi said, ERR reports. Under the current budget proposal, Estonia would contribute EUR 4.8bn to the EU’s next multiannual financial framework. Estonia’s national allocation would amount to EUR 6.5bn and funds awarded competitively to around EUR 4.4bn, Ligi suggested. He said that Estonia expected to receive EU funds for the Rail Baltica railway project, development of defence, digital, and clean industries, energy connectivity, construction of critical infrastructure, academic mobility, and research and innovation. At the same time, Estonia wished for more flexible funding conditions for national priority projects and raising the share of EU co-financing higher than 60%, Ligi added.
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