Baltic
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Pollution
A time bomb under the Northern seas
16 November 20112Trouw Amsterdam -
1991-2011
A Baltic triumph
19 August 2011IQ The Economist Vilnius -
Global warming
Holidays on Lake Baltic?
25 May 2010PresseuropNewsweek Polska -
Baltic states and the crisis (4)
Estonia, top of the class
19 May 20103Hospodářské noviny Prague -
Baltic states and the crisis (2)
Latvia, from boom to bust
19 April 20101The Independent London -
Baltic states and the crisis (1)
Running for the euro
14 April 2010Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Warsaw -
Baltic Sea
The big cleanup begins
11 February 2010PresseuropHelsingin Sanomat -
2 February 2010PresseuropRomânia libera
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Macroregions
Europe flows west to east
23 October 2009La Vanguardia Barcelona -
Regional cooperation
Baltic Blues
17 August 2009Polityka Warsaw -
Baltic sea
Bottom-feeder fish make comeback
19 June 2009PresseuropLe Monde
The seas around Europe are threatened by a new source of pollution. Thousands of tonnes of chemical weapons will corrode and start to leak. In the Baltic, the possible consequences are being investigated. 
In August 1991, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia declared their independence from a collapsing USSR. Despite a few hiccups along the way, twenty years on they have definitively turned the page on Communism and come back to their roots in Europe. 
Notwithstanding the crisis, Estonia will almost certainly be the next state to join the eurozone in January 2011. In a bid to understand the secret of its success, Czech daily Hospodářské noviny examines the country's social and economic model. 
With the highest unemployment rate in the EU, the capitalist boom years for Latvia have gone, and many of its citizens are hankering for the grey certitudes of life under communism, reports The Independent. 
The worst is over for the Baltic States. For the first time since the beginning of the financial crisis, Moody's has upped its ratings outlooks for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia: a sign that the three republics will soon be able to join the eurozone.
20 years after the Iron Curtain came down, Europe still has its sights set more on the East than on the South. The EU regards the Baltic, the Danube and even the Black Sea as priority macroregions, sidelining the Mediterranean, which is sundered by huge social and economic imbalances between its two shores. 
Several years ago, the Baltic became the EU’s internal sea. But what kind of a sea is it? A shallow, closed, poor, one that divides rather than connects. On economic as well as environmental issues, the future of the Baltic states is bound in cooperation with neighbouring countries and with the European Union.