According to Elta, it will be possible to receive clearer answers to the question regarding the construction of the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant (VNPP), which is still being raised, in a meeting of Prime Ministers of the Baltic States, which will be held in February and during which the intergovernmental commission of the electricity sector will present their proposals.
During a radio program on LRT, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said, “A special commission has been established (...), which will have to present proposals during the meeting of the Prime Ministers in February, and the VNPP project is also among the proposals being discussed.”
The head of the government assured those present that regional partners Latvia and Estonia continue to identify the cost of the project as the most important criterion that will determine the fate of the VNPP.
We keep establishing commissions and having endless discussions, while our neighbors have already begun construction. It is likely that in three months there will be something else to discuss and agree on with the partners.
On the other hand, it is better this way than to invest billions into who knows what. After all, if it were a matter of future prospects, there would already be a line of investors, and Latvians, Estonians and Poles who ran away would keep putting pressure on Lithuania to act faster. But now, as an analogy, the patient needs intensive care and instead gets therapy. It is possible it was done consciously so that it would seem like the patient is being treated, but in reality will die after it.