25 years of independence for the Baltic states

The Debates feature from Euro|Topics offers English (+ French and German) translations of a selections of articles in European news sources on this topic.Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania celebrated the 25th anniversary of their independence in August 2016. After the failed August Putsch of 1991 the Soviet Union recognised the sovereignty of these three states, which had already declared independence in 1990 following the Singing Revolution. Many columnists in the European media take the anniversary as an opportunity to take stock of the progress made since then.