A new Hanseatic era?(Planning World)

From: Town and Country Planning | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

YOU CAN GO a long way in this augmented European Union of ours: from the Aran Isles to the Pripet marshes, from Lapland to Sicily. Some of these places, although seldom inhospitable (there are B&Bs everywhere nowadays), are true border territories: great places to go if you want to escape the 21st century, perhaps disappointing if belatedly you find you didn't. But the Baltic republics are different: very different.

For one thing, they're the only countries that achieved the remarkable feat of going from being parts of the Soviet Union to being parts of the European Union in ...

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