France took over the six-month rotating presidency of the European Union on Saturday with an ambitious programme for a “powerful” and “sovereign” Europe, but this…
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Baltic and French foreign ministers meet in Rīga
Wednesday, December 1, 2021Ahead of his arrival in Latvia, France’s Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean-Yves Le Drian mentioned that he intended to “bring up his recent conversations…
Biden Just Gave France Something More Valuable than a Submarine Contract
Thursday, September 23, 2021The $66 billion submarine deal with Australia is lost, but France’s President Emmanuel Macron may have won something far more valuable from President Joe Biden. For…
Biden angers France, EU with new Australia, UK initiative
Friday, September 17, 2021President Joe Biden’s decision to form a strategic Indo-Pacific alliance with Australia and Britain to counter China is angering France and the European Union. They’re…
An unexpected alliance may appear in Europe: France and the Baltic States
Tuesday, February 9, 2021“The newly forged Franco-Baltic friendship stands as an addition to the multilateral security and cooperation structures and does not mean the Baltics are trading Brussels…
Unexpected alliances forged in Europe: France and the Baltics
Monday, February 8, 2021The newly forged Franco-Baltic friendship stands as an addition to the multilateral security and cooperation structures and does not mean the Baltics are trading Brussels…
Foreign Ministers of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and France signed Joint Communiqué
Thursday, January 28, 2021The Ministers for Foreign Affairs of Latvia, Mr Edgars Rinkevics, Lithuania, Mr Gabrielius Landsbergis and the Estonian deputy minister for European Affairs, Mr Märt Volmer, met in Paris…
Levits sends condolences to France over death of former President
Thursday, December 3, 2020Latvian State President Egils Levits sent condolences to the people of France December 3 following news of the death of former French President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing at…
France needs ‘strategic dialogue’ with Eastern Europe, not Russia
By Jeroen Bult on Thursday, October 8, 2020Not always natural allies, France and the Baltic states have a more nuanced relationship than their disagreements over Russia may suggest, argues Dutch historian and…
Questions for the European Dependencies
By Fred Reed on Friday, October 2, 2020This admirable column gets a modest trickle of mail from European readers, for some reason chiefly in France and Italy but some from the Nordic…