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The three #Baltic prime ministers will meet in #Riga, capital of #Latvia, on 12 December 2025. The meeting concludes Latvia's presidency of the Baltic Council of Ministers. #Estonia will take over the presidency in 2026.

https://viabaltica.fi/baltic-pms-to-discuss-security-rail-baltica-eu-budget/

Spending on R&D in the #Baltic States was highest in #Estonia in 2024, #Eurostat reported. Estonia's R&D expenditure amounted to 1.99% of #GDP, compared to 1.04% in #Lithuania and 0.92% in #Latvia.

https://viabaltica.fi/baltic-rd-spending-highest-in-estonia-in-2024-eurostat/

#Baltic banking group Luminor has appointed Karl von Rohr as the new chair of the supervisory councils of Luminor Holding and Luminor #Bank as of 1 January 2026. Previously, von Rohr was management board member at Germany's Deutsche Bank.

https://viabaltica.fi/baltic-luminor-bank-appoints-new-supervisory-council-chair/

The profit share of non-financial corporations in the #Baltic States was highest in #Lithuania in 2024, #Eurostat reports. The #business profit share in Lithuania stood at 41.6%, followed by #Estonia with 40.0% and #Latvia with 35.6%.

https://viabaltica.fi/baltic-business-profit-share-highest-in-lithuania-in-2024-eurostat/

The three #Baltic States have joined #Finland, #Ireland, #Poland, and #Sweden in urging the EU to use frozen Russian assets to provide a #war reparations loan to #Ukraine. The seven member states said such a solution was "the most financially appropriate and politically realistic."

https://viabaltica.fi/baltic-baltics-join-call-to-use-russian-assets-to-help-ukraine/

The #Baltic States will receive "special favour" from the United States for being "model allies," US Secretary of Defence Pete #Hegseth stated. The three Baltic countries have pledged to allocate 5% of their GDP to #defence over the coming years.

https://viabaltica.fi/baltic-us-defence-secretary-praises-baltics-as-model-allies/

Risk management company Coface's #ranking of the 50 largest #companies by turnover in the #Baltic States in 2024 includes 28 companies in #Lithuania, 15 in #Estonia, and 7 in #Latvia. The top five companies are all from Lithuania.

https://viabaltica.fi/baltic-lithuanian-firms-top-list-of-largest-companies-in-2024/

The presidents of the three #Baltic States met in the Latvian capital, #Riga, on 4 December 2025 for their annual pre-Christmas meeting. Key issues discussed included #defence and #security, #border protection, and support for #Ukraine.

https://viabaltica.fi/baltic-presidents-hold-annual-meeting-in-riga/

#Leuchtturm #Dornbusch auf #Hiddensee

#ostsee #baltic #sunstars #alpha7rm2 #meike85mmF14

Leuchtturm von unten, Sonne hinter der Spitze, dadurch Sonnenstern im Bild

Leuchtturm mit Baum unscharf am Bildrand/Vordergrund

Im Küstenwald

#MeerMittwoch #Ostsee #Baltic #Rügen

Der Blick geht aus einem herbstlichen, im Schatten auf einer Klippe liegenden Küstenwald mit kahlen Bäumen, die sich gegen die dahinter türkisfarben leuchtende Ostsee silhouettenhaft abheben, heraus bis zum Himmel am Horizont, der genau wie das Meer in verschiedenen Blautönen scheint.

The view extends from an autumnal coastal forest lying in the shade on a cliff, with bare trees silhouetted against the turquoise Baltic Sea behind them, to the sky on the horizon, which, like the sea, shimmers in various shades of blue.

The forest directly behind the beach is always particularly beautiful along the Baltic Sea coast.

#ThickTrunkTuesday #Ostsee #Baltic

Ein Waldstück im Vordergrund mit einem unregelmäßig gewachsenen kahlen Herbstbaum und bunten Blättern an einem Busch im Unterholz um den Baum herum.
Im Hintergrund ist das Meer zu sehen, das im unendlichen Grau am Horizont mit dem Himmel verschmilzt.

A patch of forest in the foreground with an irregularly grown bare autumn tree and colourful leaves on a bush in the undergrowth around the tree.
In the background, you can see the sea, which merges with the sky in an endless grey on the horizon.

Henry Bittig et al.* present extrapolated maps of surface ocean CO₂ in the Baltic Sea.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-753-2024

#ocean #baltic #co2

*Erik Jacobs, Thomas Neumann, Gregor Rehder

Figure 7Long-term trend G of surface pCO2 from the monthly mappings and the climatology construction (Eq. 1). Areas where the long-term trend is not significant are cross-hatched. In the southern Baltic Sea, a significant increase of +1.4 µatm yr−1 is obtained from the observations. Selected parts of the northern Baltic proper, the Åland Sea, and the Gulf of Finland give a similar increase of +1.5 µatm yr−1, while the western and eastern Gotland Basin show no significant long-term trend.

#European #interceptor #drones are technologically world leaders

Drone #interception technology made in #Europe is world-class.

The #Baltic states in particular, are skilled in #drone #technology. What is the reason for this success story? A Euronews report from #Estonia and #Latvia.

https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/11/28/european-interceptor-drones-are-technologically-world-leaders

#DroneWall #AI #AirDefense #RussianAggression

#30DayMapChallenge Day 24: Places and their names. Here is the same idea expanded to mostly England. I don't have the data, but I would be delighted to see a #Scandinavian or #Baltic friend extend the idea further...