Latvia to ask Europe for half a billion euros for Rail Baltica project

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  1. We are OK to pay for it, but please bring that top speed to 320 km/h. We are building a transcontinental high speed rail network and 240 km/h is too slow for a brand new line.

  2. That’s really not that much money for a project of that dimension.
    E.g. the Brenner tunnel in Austria received about 1.2 billion in EU funding.

  3. Ask them to Spain, our burocratic system is so painful and it’s so against us to just ask when in need, that nearly non of the EU funds destined to this country are being used, not even for corruption. Please, give them a use.

  4. 500M for high-speed rail is peanuts. The UK will spend at least 180 billions for a rail line that’s about twice as long. I know that land in England is way more expensive, but still.

  5. The reason that the EU (especially Poland) wants this project to go forward is to make the Baltic states less reliant on its Soviet era infrastructure that bound them to Moscow. A north-south railway brings the Baltic nations closer to Europe.

  6. I don’t want to pay for latvia railway! If they are so poor they should not be in the eu!

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