Baltics synchronise their power grids with Western Europe

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Baltic nations 'successfully' link with European power grid

Vilnius, Lithuania — Three Baltic states connected to the European power grid Sunday after severing Soviet-era links with Russia’s network, a shift EU chief Ursula von der Leyen hailed as “freedom from threats and blackmail”. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — former Soviet states that are now EU and NATO members — had been planning the

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Baltic countries successfully switch from Russia power grid to E.U. system

Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia joined the E.U.’s energy system on Sunday, one day after disconnecting from Russia’s power grid.

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The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, applauded the incorporation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania into the European electricity grid this Sunday after disconnecting last Saturday from the Russian BRELL system as an act of liberation from the energy "threats and blackmail" of Moscow. "Today we connect the Baltic countries to the continental European electricity grid. We are cutting off the last remaining links with Russ…

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"The synchronization of the Baltic states' electricity system with the continental European system has been successfully completed," Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda announced. The country was also visited by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on the occasion.

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Connecting the Baltic countries to the European electricity grid, after their decoupling from the Russian grid, frees the European Union from "threats and blackmail", welcomed the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, in Vilnius on Sunday, according to AFP, Agerpres reports.