Baltic Nations Split On Tactics
Prime ministers from the three Baltic countries failed to reach agreement Thursday on a strategy for joining the European Union and scrapped plans to issue a joint statement.
Estonian Prime Minister Mart Siimann told reporters that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are all ready to join the EU and would consider it a victory if even one of them were invited to join, the Baltic News Service reported.
However, he said the three prime ministers could not agree on how the Baltic states are perceived by the European Union and whether the EU is open to their membership.
Because they couldn’t agree on the language of a written declaration, they decided to drop the plan.