scholarly journals IDEA TRÓJMORZA, A STOSUNKI POLSKO-LITEWSKIE (THE IDEA OF THE THREE SEAS AND POLISH-LITHUANIAN RELATIONS)

2019 ◽  
pp. 79-94
Author(s):  
Aleksander CZICHOS
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Military Security ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Regional Projects ◽  
Personal Interests ◽  
Polish Foreign ◽  
The Eu

The Three Seas concept has returned in Polish foreign policy in the form of regional projects implemented by the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Covering primarily transport, energy security and digitization, but not forgetting about military security. The goal of jointly undertaken undertakings is to quickly catch up the region's many years of arrears with Western Europe. Twelve countries from the region, from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and the Adriatic Sea, got involved in Three Seas stating that the agreement does not constitute competition for the EU or NATO. At many common points of this action differences arise due to personal interests of some countries. Polish-Lithuanian relations are part of the Three Seas project, which improved after a long time, after the presidential election in Lithuania won by Gitanas Nauseda. The first meetings of the presidents of Poland and Lithuania have already shown their similar positions on many issues concerning both countries. It is hope for further favourable development of bilateral and multilateral contacts in the region.

scholarly journals Portrait of a necessary Ponto-Baltic alliance: Polish commercial road projects towards the Balkans and the Black Sea, 1919 – 1926

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-202
Author(s):  
Florin Anghel
Keyword(s):  
Black Sea ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Polish Space ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The North ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Foreign Commerce

The economic expression of the Romanian-Polish military and political alliance undoubtedly had to be represented by the rebirth of the Baltic-Pontic commercial road, as the flow of products coming into and towards the Polish space had been artificially directed, during the 19th century, as a result of understandable political and economic interests, towards the North and the Adriatic Seas, instead of the Baltic and Black Seas. A Polish commercial road towards the Balkans obviously comprised economic, financial and strategic components. One of them referred to building an alternative to the continental routes dominated by Germany (Rhine, Main, Danube); the aim was chiefly to break a dangerous monopoly in the region of Central Europe and the Baltic area. Foreign commerce on the two relations did not enjoy, in any period between the two world wars, a spectacular evolution and never reached an important point. The arguments are based on strictly economic and financial elements: 1. Romania and Poland produced largely the same type of merchandise: there were basically similar raw materials (cereal, coal, oil), the products had a very low degree of processing, and one could earn more and more assuredly with the export type-products on traditional markets (mainly Western Europe); 2. Even if there was a great interest in a partner or a product on the other market, the transport thereof took a very long time. Between Warsaw and Bucharest there was a simple, inefficient and unsafe railroad; there was no preoccupation in the ’20s for the revamping or modernizing of the transport and service infrastructure (telephone, telegraph, post) between the two states; 3. Last, but not least, although the two states had a great number of inhabitants – and, thus, an extremely important potential for buying and consumption – the potential was strongly handicapped by the standard of living. The scanty Polish projects and investments on the Baltic – Black Sea axis have completed – and have not influenced – the general frame of Romanian – Polish relations, essentially based on political, diplomatic and military interests.

scholarly journals Strategy in the making: Russia-NATO Relations under Strategic Competition

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (27) ◽  
pp. 91-114
Author(s):  
Luis Alexander Montero Moncada ◽  
Maria Paula Velandia García
Keyword(s):  
World Politics ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
European Security ◽  
Black Sea Region ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Strategic Competition ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Potential Risks ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Eu

In this article, we examine the elements that are being developed by NATO and Russia in a strategic competition in Europe. Having analysed these elements, each sub-system, as described by the Realist Theory of International Relations, is facing major changes in today’s world politics. From Northern Europe to the Balkans and the Black Sea region, the analysis focuses on areas of tension that could potentially become problematic for the interaction between the two actors. Besides, the Baltic region is explained further due to its continuous activity regarding either hybrid or tradition war tactics. Finally, we draw a parallel between NATO, the EU and the USA as main actors in European Security and how the latter has been changing drastically since Donald Trump took office. We conclude by analysing potential risks, scenarios and conflicts between NATO and Russia in short range projections.

scholarly journals Subregional Projects in the Context of the Development of the EU Eastern Partnership

2019 ◽  
pp. 76-82
Author(s):  
Serhii Feduniak
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Institution Building ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Eastern Partnership ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Regional Projects ◽  
Partnership Program ◽  
The Eu

The author analyzes subregional projects that could add dynamics to the process of European integration in the situation of substantial conceptual and institutional crisis of the European Union what directly affects the efficience of implementation of the EU projects (Eastern Partnership). Here the aurhor means reload and activation of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development GUAM and conceptualization the Baltic-Black See Union as isntitutional instruments of sub-regional stability in the context of deep crisis of Euroipean security. The consequences of sub-regional instutitutionalization for the EU and its prograns will be complex and multi-dimention. Firstly, there will be the rise of stability and security on the EU eastern flank as a compensation for its non-sufficient security elements as well as NATO low readiness for Russian threat. As soon as activation of Russian neo-imperial revisionism seriously undermines the EU Eastern Partnership Program and hampers the integration of the post-soviet states into the European and Euro-Atlantic in stitutions, establishment of both above-mentioned institutions will give a serious integration impuls for the European civilization and acceleration of the appearance of new wave of the EU members. The other result of institution building will be development of transport and logistic infastructure in the context of the implementationa bilateral EU-China trans continental projects resulting the growth of the EU poterntial as a leading global economic and political player. It is proved that ODED-GUAM and the Baltic-Black Sea Union could become substantial factors of the support of the European Union in whole and its Eastern Partnership Program particularly in case substantial work is being made by the interested states. But the main precondition of the activation pf sub-regional projects is political will and startegic interests of western elites. Keywords: European Union, EU Eastern Partnership, Organization for Democracy and Economic Development GUAM, Baltic-Black Sea Union, subregional integration.

scholarly journals The Third Conference on Baltic and Nordic Studies in Romania, May 2012

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-214
Author(s):  
Silviu-Marian Miloiu
Keyword(s):  
National Research Council ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
The Third ◽  
South Eastern Europe ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Balkan States ◽  
The Eu

The Romanian Association for Baltic and Nordic Studies continued to organize in 2012 a series of events, one of the most meaningful of which was the third international conference on Baltic and Nordic Studies entitled European networks: the Balkans, Scandinavia and the Baltic world in a time of economic and ideological crisis opened on 25 May at Valahia University of Târgoviște and sponsored by the Romanian National Research Council, Niro Investment Group and other partners (http://www.arsbn.ro/conference-2012.htm). The main goal of the conference was to foster debate and academic discussion with regard to the challenges the Balkan and Baltic regions face today, within a time of severe global economic instability. The participants discussed and advanced solutions to problems such as the accession of Balkan states to the EU and/or NATO, with particular reference to the experiences of the relatively new EU and/or NATO Member States from South-Eastern Europe and the Eastern Baltic region; the economic, security or cultural threats posed by Balkan and/or Eastern European states or non-state actors to the Western or Nordic Europe as perceived there; the development of extremist movements and the Balkan organized crime in the Scandinavian countries; the Balkan Roma peoples as a “threat” for Western and Nordic Europe; strategies for integrating minorities in the Baltic Sea rim countries and the Black Sea areas.

scholarly journals Regarding certain historical and legal preconditions for the formation and development of transport law

2020 ◽  
pp. 269-273
Author(s):  
Iryna Danilova
Keyword(s):  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Administrative Law ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Regulation Of Transport ◽  
Merchant Shipping ◽  
Trade Route ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Former Ussr

The article examines some historical and legal prerequisites for the formation and development of transport law as a complexbranch of law. It is emphasized that the regulation of transport activities in the ancient and medieval world was carried out mainlythrough trade and maritime customs, and points to the application of legal customs in transport law today.Transport law is a complex branch of law, and depending on the prevailing legal relationship, it can be considered as part of civil,commercial or administrative law. There was no separate school of transport law in the former USSR and Ukraine. Today, research onthe problems of transport law and the development of proposals to overcome them are carried out by scientists belonging to the scientificschools of commercial, civil and administrative law. Within these schools, there are separate groups of scientists or research departmentsthat carry out research to improve transport legislation.In transport law, the regulation of shipping and maritime trade developed first of all. It was there that the first legal customsappeared. Among the legal customs used in transport law, port customs (customs of the port) stand out.In Russia, trade was conducted mainly by river and sea “from the Vikings to the Greeks”, which ran from the Scandinavian Peninsula,the Baltic Sea, the Dnieper and the Black Sea to Byzantium. Thanks to this trade route, the inhabitants of Kievan Rus built boatsand developed a transport system. In addition to sea and river routes, the territory of modern Ukraine was a land route from Asia toEurope, stretching from southeast to northwest of our country – the legendary “Aryan route”, which according to some historians thousandsof years ago from the Indian subcontinent to Western and Northern Europe came the Aryan tribe, which gave development to theEuropean peoples. The possibility of applying port customs is provided by Art. 78 of the Code of Merchant Shipping of Ukraine. In addition to ports,the customs of merchant shipping are widely used. For example, in accordance with Art. 6 (concerning the permission to include in theagreements provided by the Code of Merchant Shipping of Ukraine, conditions on application of foreign legislation and customs ofmerchant shipping in case the parties may deviate from its rules in accordance with the current Code); art. 71 (in emergency cases, whenthe vessel has to be on the high seas for a long time and the body of the deceased cannot be saved, the captain of the vessel has the rightto give the body to the sea according to maritime customs, about which the corresponding act is made and the corresponding record ismade; Art. 146 (cargo is placed on the ship at the discretion of the captain, but can not be placed on deck without the written consentof the sender, except for cargo, the carriage of which on deck is allowed in accordance with applicable rules and customs); art. 293(concerning the possibility of determining the type of accident, calculating the size of the general accident and compiling the dispatchby the dispatcher in conditions of incompleteness of the law) of the Merchant Shipping Code of Ukraine of May 23, 1995.

scholarly journals Baltic - Nordic Universities in the EU Research and Innovation Programme Horizon 2020

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina Bērziņa
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Direct Access ◽  
Horizon 2020 ◽  
Research Education ◽  
World University Rankings ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
Excellent Research ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Eu

This study looks at the research education in universities and is aimed at assessment of the Baltic – Nordic Higher Education Establishments’ participation to the EU Horizon 2020 Framework Programme on basis of the open source data. The author analyses university interest in Horizon 2020 support for doctoral students’ training, correlation between university PhD intensity and involvement in research projects, correlation between Horizon 2020 success and World university rankings, participation comparison of  Nordic universities versus the Baltic ones. A brief overview of universities’ commitment to Sustainable development goals is also included. The study concludes that Nordic universities are more thoroughly engaged than the Baltic ones and are taking advantage of the Horizon 2020 opportunities; however, Estonia has a remarkable success. Although Nordic universities are looking for collaboration partners further into Western Europe than to the neighbours across the Baltic Sea, for teaming activities Baltic universities choose Nordic mentors. Nordic universities are more involved in activities leading to excellent research. On contrary – in many cases participation of Baltic universities is limited to coordination of research activities without a direct access to the leading European science communities and respective possibilities for students.

Growth-promoting reforms in Estonia will take time

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Productivity Growth ◽  
Baltic States ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Baltic Countries ◽  
Labour Costs ◽  
Catch Up ◽  
Growth Promoting ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Eu

Subject Recent sluggish growth rates in Estonia. Significance Estonia has traditionally been the wealthiest of the three Baltic countries, but now Lithuania has caught up with it in terms of per capita GDP. The Estonian economy has grown more slowly than those of the other two Baltic states, in particular because of lacklustre productivity growth. Impacts Despite continuing emigration, the Latvian and Lithuanian economies are forecast to grow more vigorously than Estonia's in the coming years. Unit labour costs will continue to rise in Estonia, as wage growth exceeds productivity growth. Slower growth in the Baltic states will still exceed the EU average, allowing catch-up with more affluent countries. Firms and households may have learned their lesson regarding very rapid debt growth, judging by the Baltics' very small external imbalances.

scholarly journals Editorial Foreword

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-6
Author(s):  
Silviu-Marian Miloiu
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
Regional Cooperation ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
The North ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Eu

A large part of the articles published in the current issue of Revista Română de Studii Baltice şi Nordice / The Romanian Journal for Baltic and Nordic Studies have been initially presented at the Fourth International Conference on Baltic and Nordic Studies in Romania: Empire-Building and Region-Building in the Baltic, North and Black Sea areas held at Ovidius University Of Constanța in May 2013. The conference approached the North in the wider perspective of regional cooperation intra- and extra-Nordic muros. The North is regarded as a springboard of regional cooperation which has a strong though faltering historical and cultural background and an obvious European dimension. The downfall of the Communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the process of European integration (whether some of the Nordic countries belong to the EU or not, they are all part and parcel of the process and deeply affected by it) have encouraged the development of regional cooperation in Northern Europe. Belonging to the Northern dimension of the EU meant not only maintaining a regional identity with deep roots in history and culture and making the others acknowledge it, but also strengthening the influence of Nordic countries within and outside the EU and fostering other regional cooperation initiatives in the Baltic Sea area and outside it. Patterned on the Nordic regional cooperation, the Baltic States of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia strengthened their regional cooperation and envisaged deepening their ties to surrounding areas, especially with the Nordic countries. Alongside the Nordic countries, they also gradually turned into a model for the Danubian and Black Sea countries. In this respect, the conference addressed themes such as: the empire building, region-building, national/nationalist, cultural construction discourses present in these regions; the historic development of these regional initiatives and/or organizations and the relations between them; political, cultural and diplomatic relations between Baltic and/or Nordic states, on the one hand, and the Black Sea countries, on the other hand; the relations between the EU integration and different Baltic, North and Black Sea regional structures; education and leadership in the context of regionalization in the Baltic Sea and Black Sea areas; linguistic unity and diversity in Scandinavia and the Baltic states; Nordic and Baltic identity through cultural diversity; water protection in the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea Region and the role of agriculture; inter- and intra-regional comparisons.

OVER CAPACITY OF CONTAINER SHIPPING AS A CHALLENGE TO RAIL SILK ROAD COMPETITIVENESS

2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (0) ◽  
pp. 121-0 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stanisław Miecznikowski ◽  
Tomasz Radzikowski
Keyword(s):  
Western Europe ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
Silk Road ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Caspian Sea ◽  
Sea Transport ◽  
Capacity Level ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Sea Ports

International trade is rapidly changing. Global trade agreements are replaced by regional agreements. The China’s GDP is decreasing resulting in lower level of China’s exports, which so far used mainly sea transport. The sea transport experiences glut in transport capacity, which, with the the falling GDP of China, may result in subsequent bancrupties of ship owners, high costs and uneffectiveness of sea ports. Moreover sea freight takes a long time and is connected with long transshipments in ports. Rail transport is much more efficient due to the considerably smaller batches of goods. However, creating “one belt” connecting China and Europe is required. The existing railway corridor, the so called “new silk road” runs through north Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus and Poland to Western Europe. Its capacity level is insufficient. Creating a new projected railway corridor running through Central Asia, the Caspian Sea, Azerbeijan, Georgia, the Black Sea and the Ukraine to the European Union.

scholarly journals Alien amphipods (Arthopoda; Crustacea) in the Tista Estuary, Halden, southeastern Norway

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 34-40
Author(s):  
Ingvar Spikkeland ◽  
Jens Petter Nilssen
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Brackish Water ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Ecological Niches ◽  
Ship Traffic ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Kiel Canal ◽  
Corophium Multisetosum

Two new amphipods for Norway Melita nitida and Corophium multisetosum (Crustacea; Amphipoda) were registered in brackish waters in the Tista Estuary in Halden, southeastern Norway. Both species were found in the samples from Tista’s outlet into the Idde Fjord, C. multisetosum in the beach zone and M. nitida at about 4 m depth. Melita nitida is a North American species first found in Europe in the Netherlands in 1998, and since then dispersed into the Baltic Sea via the Kiel Canal and now also found several places on the German Baltic Sea coast and in the Black Sea. Corophium multisetosum was collected even before the 1920s in Western Europe, and is considered native for Europe, whereas its relationship to North America is more ambiguous. From the British Isles and the Netherlands, it seems to have spread to Germany, Poland, Denmark and Sweden, and at present Norway. Until now the two species were found in small numbers at the Norwegian sites and their influence on the total benthic community is probably negligible in this initial phase. The Tista Estuary in Halden apparently appears to be a hotspot for alien brackish water species in Norway. Generally estuaries, with their combination of brackish water jointly with their unsaturated ecological niches and intensive international ship traffic, seem to possess the highest potential infection rate for aquatic systems with alien acrozoobenthic species.

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