The Forgotten Island. The Baltic countries will dearly for energy independence

... between the EU and Russia and the “sanctions war,” in September 2015 Germany and France signed an agreement with Gazprom to build a 55 billion cubic metres a year Nord Stream 2 pipeline. As expected, the East European champions of the “energy independence” strategy, including Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, are the fiercest opponents of the project. Their argument predictably is that preserving the gas transportation route via Ukraine meets the EU’s strategic interests in terms of energy security and strengthens stability in Eastern ...