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  • Wednesday, 9 March, 2022
    The Big Read
    War in Ukraine: will the Baltics become the ‘new West Berlin’?

    Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania could potentially be encircled by Russian expansion but their leaders insist they have never been as secure

  • Monday, 28 February, 2022
    Artis Pabriks
    Europe must give Ukraine everything it asks for

    The Baltic states have long understood the kind of aggression Russia is visiting on its neighbour

  • Thursday, 24 February, 2022
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Baltic states appeal for Nato help after Russia’s assault on Ukraine

    Ex-Soviet nations that are members of the military alliance are particularly vulnerable

  • Sunday, 20 February, 2022
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Baltic states fear encirclement as Russia threat rises

    Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia worry about Belarus and being cut off from Europe

  • Thursday, 3 February, 2022
    EU defence
    Lithuania calls for more German troops to face Russia ‘threat’

    President says Baltic countries face greatest danger since regaining independence

  • Wednesday, 2 February, 2022
    Inside BusinessRichard Milne
    As Ukraine tensions mount, concerns rise over defence and ESG

    Now is not the time to desert companies we rely on for our security, warns Latvian deputy prime minister

  • Monday, 24 January, 2022
    Estonia
    Estonia’s PM calls for greater US presence in Baltics

    Plea for the west to remain united and not give even smallest concession to Moscow

  • Monday, 3 January, 2022
    News in-depth
    Baltics’ record trade with Belarus contrasts sharply with sanctions stance

    Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania try to balance economic opportunities with geopolitical rhetoric

  • Sunday, 8 August, 2021
    Eastern Europe
    Latvia warns of risk of ‘incident’ between Nato and Russia

    Belarus ‘border crisis’ and military exercise could cause ‘misunderstanding’, says foreign minister

  • Tuesday, 1 December, 2020
    InterviewEstonia
    Europe needs to be ‘assertive’ with Russia, says Estonia’s president

    Kersti Kaljulaid praises Nato for putting ‘boots on the ground’ in Baltic region

  • Friday, 4 September, 2020
    Lithuania
    Lithuania’s Ignitis seeks to tap Baltic power push with planned IPO

    Utility looks to invest in renewables as region pursues energy independence from Russia

  • Thursday, 16 May, 2019
    Estonia
    Estonia finance minister vows to oppose further EU integration

    Rise of Martin Helme’s anti-immigrant EKRE party alarms Brussels

  • Sunday, 17 March, 2019
    News in-depthMoney laundering
    Baltic regulators fret that scandal could drive Nordic banks away

    Nordic lenders have up to fourth-fifths of the market in some Baltic countries

  • Wednesday, 6 March, 2019
    Inside BusinessRichard Milne
    Dirty money scandal taints image of Nordic nations

    Western countries with clean reputations are an essential part of alleged corruption

  • Tuesday, 26 February, 2019
    Swedbank AB
    Swedbank ditches EY as money laundering auditor

    Denmark is separately probing EY over its audit of Danske Bank in 2014

  • Thursday, 17 January, 2019
    Russia
    Facebook removes hundreds of ‘fake’ accounts linked to Russia

    Social media group says page activity points to ‘co-ordinated inauthentic behaviour’

  • Sunday, 28 October, 2018
    News in-depthEuropean banks
    Nordic model tarnished as scandals hit region’s banks

    Past vulnerability may lie in the late arrival of anti-money laundering regulation

  • Thursday, 13 September, 2018
    US & Canadian companies
    Blackstone buys 60% holding in Baltic lender Luminor

    Nordea and DNB retreat from region with €1bn stake sale to private equity group

  • Sunday, 22 July, 2018
    EU defence
    Latvian foreign minister urges bigger defence spend

    Russian posture cited in call to exceed Nato’s 2% of GDP target

  • Thursday, 5 July, 2018
    EU defence
    Europe braces itself for twin Trump summits

    Fears US president will act on his attacks on Nato and European defence shortfalls

  • Wednesday, 9 May, 2018
    Nick Clegg
    Northern Europeans hold the eurozone’s future in their hands

    Much rests on the Dutch, who are emerging as Europe’s leading advocates of free trade

  • Monday, 19 March, 2018
    News in-depthRussian politics2 min
    How Vladimir Putin will keep country's support

    Russian president will continue to play the foreign policy card

  • Monday, 5 February, 2018
    EU defence
    Baltic concern rises at Russian missiles in Kaliningrad

    Lithuania claims deployment of nuclear-capable Iskander system has been made permanent

  • Wednesday, 6 December, 2017
    Global InsightRichard Milne
    A century on, Finland has learnt to tame the Russian bear

    100 years after independence, Helsinki sees neighbour as both a threat and opportunity  

  • Tuesday, 7 November, 2017
    Europe Express
    The Hanseatic League 2.0

    With Brexit looming, a 21st century version of the alliance could be making a comeback

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