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Thursday, 18.04.2024, 08:16
Polish PM has confirmed plans to reconstruct railway to Lithuania
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| Algirdas Butkevicius and Donald Tusk. Brussels, 3.04.2014. Photo: lrv.lt |
On Thursday, Lithuania's Prime Minister said that, during the meeting with the Polish Prime Minister on Wednesday, the project Rail Baltica was not discussed because this issue had been already discussed in the meeting of the Baltic Council of Ministers in February.
However, the Head of the Government ascertained that Tusk had promised to reconstruct the railway from Poland's capital to the border with Lithuania.
Rail Baltica is one of the priority projects of the European Union: Trans-European Transport Networks (TEN-T). The project is supposed to link Finland, the Baltic States and Poland and also improve the connection between Central and Northern Europe and Germany. It envisages a continuous rail link from Tallinn (Estonia), to Warsaw (Poland), going via Riga (Latvia) and Kaunas (Lithuania). It will by-pass the Kaliningrad Oblast (Russia) and Hrodno (Belarus), which have historically hosted two Poland-Lithuania rail routes. The route is estimated to be completed by 2024.
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