One of the most significant direct aspects was that during the negotiations, Latvian negotiators managed to convince the European Commission and EU member states that better criteria for calculating cohesion policy formulas should be applied. In Latvia's case, a more favourable "capping" played a major role – the maximum volume of cohesion policy funding that a recipient country can receive in its "envelope". At the beginning of the negotiations, the cohesion policy calculation meant a reduction of more than 20%. By the end of the negotiations, this indicator helped to maintain the desired volume of Latvia's cohesion envelope."

At the same time, it should be noted that the overall circumstances surrounding the negotiations changed, as explained by the ministry before the "Delfi" interview with Dzidzikosta. "The Covid-19 pandemic created a common understanding that the economy would need to be stimulated. This not only became the foundation for the creation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility, but also allowed us to convince the so-called net contributor countries not to reduce existing EU programmes that provide the largest investments in the economies of member states. Accordingly, this made it possible to convince negotiation partners to agree to more favourable "capping" in Latvia's case. The "ReactEU" programme was also added to the cohesion policy, from which Latvia's envelope amounted to 272 million euros."