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The notion of the Baltic region has a double meaning. On the one hand, it refers to the three Baltic States (Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), which gained their membership in the European Union in 2004. On the other hand, it refers to the whole Baltic Sea Area (BSA), including also Finland, Sweden, Denmark and parts of Germany, Poland and Russia. These two Baltic regions are often overlapping, and their logic is often but not necessarily congruent. This chapter examines the role of both Baltic regions in recent EU development. However, only the Baltic States’ political goals with regard to the EU are closely scrutinized (Lee Miles, in Chapter 13 of this volume, deals with the Nordic countries).
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Lehti, M. (2010). Baltic Europe. In: Dyson, K., Sepos, A. (eds) Which Europe?. Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230289529_9
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