Twelve EU members between the Baltic, Adriatic and Black Seas belong to the Three Seas Initiative. Today they advise in Riga. Main topic: the war in Ukraine. Federal President Steinmeier also takes part.
The Three Seas Initiative has started a summit meeting in Riga under the impression of the Ukraine war.
The deliberations of the heads of state and government of twelve EU countries should focus on the consequences of the war and support for the country attacked by Russia. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj addressed the participants via video, including Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
A parallel economic forum of the initiative will also deal with energy, transport and digitization. “In the current political situation, it is important to show the rest of the world the capabilities and potential of our region,” said the host Latvian President Egils Levits at the start of the summit meeting of twelve EU countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Greater cooperation will lead to a Europe that is “more resilient, more united and more globally competitive”.
Steinmeier wanted to have private talks with the Presidents of Estonia and Poland, Alar Karis and Andrzej Duda. It would be the first conversation with Duda since the meeting of the two presidents in Warsaw in April, at which Steinmeier found out at short notice that he had been invited through Ukraine to travel to Kyiv together with Duda and the three Baltic heads of state. Poland had organized this trip.
The Three Seas Initiative was launched in 2015 by Poland and Croatia. It consists of twelve EU members between the Baltic, Adriatic and Black Seas: the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; the Visegrad states of Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary; the Black Sea countries of Bulgaria and Romania; the Adriatic countries Slovenia and Croatia; also Austria. Germany is the partner country of the initiative. It is not an intergovernmental organization but an informal forum.
Source: Stern
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