Since last weekend, there has been growing fear that the European Union will not be able to implement the commitment previously declared to vaccinate 70% of the Union's adult population against Covid-19% by summer. The reason is the announcements by two large vaccine makers about planned supply delays - Pfizer announced it would
On 27th January Chairwoman of the Board of the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation Prof. Žaneta Ozoliņa participated in the Global Diplomatic Forum organised webinar "The European Policy of the United States of America". The US and the EU will be looking to revive their relationship after the
On 19th January the Danish Institute for International Studies - DIIS organized a webinar in memory of Ambassador Per Carlsen, former Director of DIIS, who sadly passed away in December 2020. This webinar brought together prominent voices from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Denmark, who all
On December 15, 2020, Latvijas Radio organised a web conference through Zoom, as part of its "European Week". The topic of the debate was: "European values and how to strengthen them through and beyond Europe". The debate took place within the framework of the Euranet
Over the past five years, EU Member States have increasingly invoked the concept of strategic autonomy in their political discourse. Initially, the content of this concept was mainly composed of a commitment to participate in international security issues as a united actor without NATO and the US. Most countries
On December 2nd the Rīga Conference Lecture Series began with a "Lecture on Belarus" by Dr. Aliaksei Kazharski, Researcher at the Institute of European Studies and International Relations of the Comenius University, Lecturer at the Department of Security Studies of Charles University in Prague. In the
The Rīga Conference 2020 will take place on the 12th and 13th of November online. The conference will gather high level experts and decision-makers. This year, parallel to the conference, four side events will be taking place online as well. One of them is “Women,
The Rīga Conference 2020 will take place on the 12th and 13th of November online. The conference will gather high level experts and decision-makers. Its participants will have the opportunity to hear from the Secretary General of NATO, Jens Stoltenberg, the President of the European
On September 29, the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation, Vice-President of the Estonian Atlantic Association (EATA) Krista Mulenok, in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Latvia, invited Baltic Sea region Atlantic Treaty Organizations to a discussion on topical security issues. During the discussion, participants presented profiles
On September 18, 2020 the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation, in cooperation with Estonian Atlantic Treaty Association (EATA) organised an online expert discussion on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Comprehensive Defence. NATO Defense Institution and Capacity Building Director Mark DiPaolo, Undersecretary for Defense Policy of
On September 4, in the framework of the Conversation Festival LAMPA, the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Latvia organised a discussion entitled “Comprehensive State Protection – Covid-19 analysis and training”, in which Dr Artis Pabriks, Defence Minister of Latvia, Mārtiņš Baltmanis, Deputy Head
This book analyzes the small Baltic States and their integration into the Euro-Atlantic structures from the perspective of the foreign policies of major powers - the United States, Russia, and major European powers and institutions - towards the region, or each of the Baltic States.