Rail Baltica: EU coordinator urges Latvia to take decisions

Map of the Rail Baltica corridor and its links into the wider North Sea–Baltic network, where unresolved national decisions — including in Latvia — affect delivery and sequencing. Photo: CET.

The European Commission’s coordinator for the North Sea–Baltic Corridor has urged Latvia to take formal decisions on scope, sequencing and funding for Rail Baltica, warning that delays risk undermining the project’s EU 2030 target.

The remarks were highlighted by RB Rail AS, the project’s joint venture company, which said in a 3 February post that comments by the corridor coordinator, Catherine Trautmann, echoed its own calls for funding commitments and decisions from Latvia.

The intervention shifts attention from construction progress to governance, as key national choices in Latvia on project scope, delivery sequence and financing remain unsettled.

RB Rail highlights EU call for decisions

Without clear national decisions, the project lacks a fixed scope and budget to plan procurement and secure funding. That uncertainty feeds into cost control, scheduling and cross-border coordination.

RB Rail AS did not publish new delivery milestones in the post, but said the coordinator’s remarks matched its own calls for decisions and funding commitments from the Latvian side.