Competing for Kaliningrad

From: The World Today | Date: December 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

This month European Union leaders Journey far north to Helsinki once on the Cold War icecap - to lay the foundations for enlargement into the twenty-first century and begin to explore some of the obstacles and dilemmas of stretching so far east. As growth continues and the Union increases from its current fifteen to a potential twenty-six members, will"Its strategic partnership with the Russian Federation be reinforced or undermined? The issues are clearly illustrated in the Russian territory of Kaliningrad.

KALINGRAD, situated further west than Athens, Sofia and Bucharest, can rightly claim ...

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