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A new railway tunnel linking the Baltics and Scandinavia could transform the geopolitics of the entire region, from the Nordics through the Baltic States to Europe.

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Underground railway tunnel
Underground railway tunnel
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In mid-June, the European Union pledged to provide €1 million to finance a preliminary study on the feasibility of constructing a railway tunnel between Tallinn and Helsinki, under the Gulf of Finland. The decision has attracted widespread attention to a project that officials in both cities, a

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