Baltic necklace - Ear To The Ground - Brief Article

For A Change, Dec, 2003 by Alison Wetterfors

This time, I went to Tallinn for a conference on cooperation and reconciliation in the region. Knud Simon Christensen, a Danish journalist, talked of the necklace of nine countries around the Baltic, and the role of small countries, whom no-one suspects of power politics, in building trust. Dr Markus Osterlund of Helsinki University spoke of the need to look back and understand history in order to be able to move forward.

Professor Erik Terk, head of the Future Studies Institute of Estonia, commented on the upcoming referendum in Estonia on joining the European Union and stressed the need to concentrate on the EU's content, quality and values.