BB.lv: These liable for Rail Baltica hid their issues from the authorities

In accordance with the report of the Nationwide Audit Workplace, on condition that the dimensions and price of the Rail Baltica mission have elevated considerably, the mission is not on time and the time has come to take essential choices on its additional administration, it’s obligatory that this info is dropped at the eye of governments and parliaments, which should make choices recurrently and in a well timed method.

Whereas in Estonia the federal government was knowledgeable of funds will increase, delays and the splitting of the mission into two phases, this isn’t the case in different international locations.

In Lithuania, reporting to the federal government takes the type of a month-to-month progress report and particular conferences the place particular points are mentioned. Nevertheless, adjustments to the fee estimates and phases of the mission had not been formally offered to both the federal government or parliament by Could 2024, and no determination had been made on the matter.

The Nationwide Audit Workplace notes that whereas in Estonia and Lithuania the Rail Baltica mission is recurrently reported to parliaments, in Latvia this matter was mentioned solely as soon as within the interval from 2021 to 2023.