Security Issues Are Not Resolved by Nervousness
... Baltic naval squadron ( BALTRON ) and the Baltic countries’ defence college ( BALTDEFCOL ) in Tartu continue to operate. Sweden, Finland and Norway, together with Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and also Ireland, are part of the Nordic Battlegroup,... ... fulfilling the “Petersberg tasks”. Expansion of the sphere of shared or coinciding interests of the northern and Baltic states through various forms of cooperation is intended to add another three countries to the northern European “Big Five” with the aim of gradually creating an influential bloc of eight small European states ...
04.03.2015