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Sweden and Finland may not be members of NATO, but the alliance should call on their help. Defending its European members used to be NATO's main task. Now it is all but...

Estonia's finance minister is not afraid to throw his weight around. Diminutive and still developing, Estonia is ever conscious of its place in the European family, which in...

The foreign ministers of the Baltic states reflect on 20 years of independence and on their countries' evolving foreign policy. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the...

Matti Maasikas succeeds Raul Mälk. Matti Maasikas has been appointed Estonia's permanent representative to the EU, succeeding Raul Mälk. Maasikas was a member of...

Meet Mart Laar: a young pretender turned old defender When Yegor Gaidar, the first post-Soviet prime minister of Russia, who was architect of the country's misunderstood...

Europe can no longer free-ride on the back of US taxpayers, a lesson NATO's eastern member states should learn now. Defence spending in the new member states of NATO is...

Prime Minister Andrus Ansip is in a position to form a majority coalition. Estonia's governing centre-right coalition is in a position to serve a second term, after...

Ruling coalition set to win with narrow margin. Much has changed in Estonia over the past four years, but the election on 6 March mirrors its predecessor: another...

Estonia's transition to the euro has gone without a hitch, officials in Brussels and Tallinn say. On 1 January, the Baltic country became the 17th state to adopt the euro....

EU responsibilities change with advent of 2011. 1600 EU officials transferred into EU diplomatic service on 1 January. The first day of 2011 will change the lines of...

Baltic state becomes 17th country to switch to single currency The European single currency is extended to a 17th European Union country on 1 January when Estonia is...

Estonia picks a bad time to join the eurozone. To the astonishment of many, the beleaguered eurozone will get its 17th member on 1 January when minuscule Estonia...

Estonia's finance minister says his country is making the right decision by joining the eurozone. Jürgen Ligi, the finance minister of Estonia, acknowledges that his...

A possible north-south divide for the eurozone. The difficulties suffered by the eurozone have given rise to fashionable talk of the single currency splitting in two. 

Lithuania, Belarus and Russia are competing to be the Baltic's energy power. Over the past year, a high-stakes nuclear race has begun in the Baltic region, with the winner...

It may have problems, but Latvia's government and its civil servants have plenty to be proud of. Outsiders love to worry about Latvia, seeing it as the weak link in the...

A resolution for all Europeans to mull over during the summer holiday: east-west matters less than north-south. This column is supposedly dedicated to ‘wider', ‘wilder'...

The performance of Sweden and Estonia during the crisis demonstrates the wisdom of controlling public spending. The Greek drama has illustrated how the first wave of the...

Algirdas Brazauskas, a communist who led Lithuania out of the Soviet Union, has died aged 77. Lithuania's experience of Soviet rule was a little different to that of its...

It is proving worryingly hard to keep the Baltic family as tightly knit as it once was. Encouraging traumatised young people to become good citizens is one thing. Treating...