In the
Baltic states, BTA already has paid EUR 72.5 million in insurance indemnities this year, which is 28.1 percnet more than in the first six months of 2018.
The Baltic Way helped the
Baltic states regain their sovereignty and also gave impetus to democratic movements elsewhere such as in Germany.
These four areas, he said, are: counter Russian cyberwarfare by integrating military, political and informational instruments of power; invest in cyberinfrastructure; share burden of defense, which means all NATO nations must honor the target of spending 2 percent of the GDP on defense; and realize that "all of our actions depend on preserving our strategic confidence." In an earlier panel discussion, the leaders of the three
Baltic states -- Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania -- said that they would like a "long-standing" U.S.
By 1991, the
Baltic states were free again, able to join the Western world.
The agreement sets out the commitment of the three
Baltic states to strengthen their cooperation in the development of a common capital market.
Along these lines, the transition in the
Baltic states could be labelled the triple transition since it also implied the establishment of new national administrative and institutional structures.
Last month, NATO (http://www.ibtimes.com/nato-chief-announces-deployment-4-battalions-baltic-states-ahead-defense-ministers-2381820) announced that the alliance will deploy four multinational battalions to the
Baltic states and Poland on a rotational basis against Russian aggression.
US President Barack Obama, in a speech delivered in Estonia in 2014, said NATO would help to safeguard the independence of the three
Baltic states, which broke away from Moscow's orbit in 1990-91 as the Soviet Union was collapsing.
"This is further reassurance for our allies on the eastern flank of Nato - for the
Baltic states and for Poland," he said, as he arrived in Brussels for a meeting of alliance defence ministers.
Major opportunities for UK firms across all three
Baltic states exist in sectors including shared services and business process outsourcing, ICT and energy and power infrastructure.
"In reaction to the security situation in the region, as a measure of deterrence, chiefs of defense of the
Baltic states will apply officially to Supreme NATO Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR) about permanent stationing of a brigade-sized NATO unit in the
Baltic States," Lithuanian Army spokesman Mindaugas Neimontas said.