r/BalticStates

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called on EU leaders to discuss a new additional membership status for Ukraine and other candidate countries to maintain momentum until they're full members of the bloc, in a letter seen by the Kyiv Independent dated May 18.

Ukraine has been a candidate country since 2022, but further progress on EU accession has been blocked for almost a year.

The letter notes that "the enlargement process takes much too long" and that "understandably, this creates frustration."

Hi!🤠

I recently received a remote job offer from a company based in Lithuania and I’m considering accepting it.

I wanted to ask Lithuanians here how this is usually perceived in everyday life and work context.

If someone is Russian but works remotely for a Lithuanian company, how is that generally seen nowadays?

I understand the political situation is sensitive, and I fully respect that. I’m not asking about politics itself, more about everyday impressions and work related interactions like communication with colleagues, general attitude, and whether nationality tends to matter in practice even if everything is remote and professional.

From your perspective, is it mostly neutral, or can there still be some tension or bias in interactions?

I would really appreciate honest local opinions :3

To better understand the absurdity, the song starts with "And now, the end is near".

I saw this on the internet, listened to the broadcast and heard Lithuanian radio apologise. Oddly enough as someone who didn't grow up in the region, I've gotten very quickly used to this already, as yesterday during the alert and shoot down here in Estonia, I was thinking more about the hot weather over the rogue drone threat.

I think it's best we laugh at the mistake, ask our leaders to improve our air defense, and don't let russian EW countermeasures scare us in any way. In other words, keep calm and carry on.

Doing some personal research and I'll likely be visiting the Baltics in the near future so figured this would be interesting/useful to know; however unsurprisingly most of the sources on this topic are in Latvian, so if any Latvians or anybody knowledgeable is able to answer it would be greatly appreciated.

As I understand it, there are two primary levels of policing in Latvia: the state police and various municipal police agencies. Both seem to be civilian organizations with broad law enforcement powers: but what, if any, are the primary differences in their duties and powers?