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

... since 2001. In 2009 the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant which generated up to 70% of the gas consumed in Lithuania and made it possible to export energy was shut down on the EU’s demand. The Baltics finally turned from an energy-excessive into an energy-deficient region which has close electrical and gas bonds with Russia. Infrastructure (transport, gas, electricity and so on) is the last sphere Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have failed to completely integrate into Europe over the past 25 post-Soviet years. REUTERS/Gerard Julien Nikolay Kaveshnikov: EU Energy Union – New Packaging for Old Projects After the start of the Ukrainian crisis, Vilnius,...