Listen: Baiba Rubesa and Siim Kallas on Rail Baltica

Rubesa was hopeful that the current momentum that the project seems finally to have generated can be maintained now that the financial costs and likely benefits are a little clearer.

She was also refreshingly open regarding the possibility of Chinese involvement in the project.

Looking in the other direction was Kallas, referred to during the morning's discussions as "the Godfather of Rail Baltica" for his work in the Commission trying to turn the project into more than a bright idea.