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The Helsinki Commission chairman Ursula von der Leyen. File image. Photo: Geert Vanden Wijngaert
The Baltician’s electricity grid is now linked to the EU via Poland. Ursula von der Leyen calls it a historic day.
Last Saturday, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as the last European countries, switched away from an old Soviet electricity grid leading to Russia, the Russian exclusive Kaliningrad and Belarus.
For about a day, the Baltic countries then stood without connection to a larger so -called synchronous area. But on Sunday, the countries were linked to the Central European electricity area via Poland.
EU Commission President Ursula von Der Leyen, who is in place in Vilnius to celebrate what happened, says in a statement that “history has been created”.
Work on disconnecting the Russian network was already started five years ago.