The Rail Baltica project took an important step forward yesterday with the signing of a €734m European Union (EU) grant funding agreement. This aims at building a European standard-gauge network from Estonia through Latvia and Lithuania and with connections further to Warsaw and Berlin.

The deal was signed in Tallinn by representatives of the RB Rail trilateral joint venture, which is responsible for co-ordinating implementation of the project, together with the European Commission Directorate-General for Mobility and Transport (DG Move), the EU's Innovation and Networks Agency (Inea) and the transport ministries of the three countries.

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