The Baltics in 2020. Frontline States and the Double Periphery
... for the Baltic countries will drop significantly following Brexit and the adoption of the European Union’s new seven-year financial outlook. Third, the Baltic states will withdraw from the BRELL and the bulk of Russian freight will switch from the Baltic states to the freight ports in Russia’s north-west. Thus, several factors of negative significance for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia will converge in the same period, which could spark full-fledged economic and social crises in the Baltic states.