Kaliningrad
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EU/Russia: Kaliningrad gets closer to Europe
14 December 201144PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Russia-EU: Who will open this window on Europe?
10 May 201154 1 Polityka Warsaw -
Kaliningrad: Solidarność spirit inspires anti-Putin demo
1 February 2010PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Tourism: Kosmopolitan Kaliningrad
19 November 200914 Cafebabel.com Paris -
CAP: The great European sugar swindle
17 November 200935 1 International Herald Tribune Paris -
Anti-missile shield: Russia inspires fear and foreboding
18 September 20091 Presseurop
Residents of a region that considers itself to be a “window on Europe,” the population of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, which is located between Poland and Lithuania, want Moscow to establish closer links with the EU. In particular, they are hoping for an end to a requirement for visas for European travel: an “iron curtain” that separates them from Western modernity. 
Sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland, the once forbidding Russian exclave of Kaliningrad now benefits from federal money and oil revenues. Cafebabel.com reports from a city that now offers that familiar mix of Moscow trash and flash. 
Nowhere in the world is sugar more expensive than in the European Union. There are two reasons for this – generous CAP subsidies that prop up this €7bn industry…and lucrative scams perpetrated by the beneficiaries, Europe’s own sugar companies. A report from the International Herald Tribune. 
Barack Obama's decision to abandon plans for a missile defence shield in Poland and the Czech Republic - promised by George Bush - has not been welcomed in either country. The European press expresses its concern about the influence of Moscow in the region.