Our EU successors are a lot like us
LITHUANIA is a lot like Ireland. Both are on the periphery of the EU, both have spent a lot of their history battling a neighbour, both suffer immigration, both worry about nuclear plants across the border, about the fate of the euro, and about sourcing their own energy.
And this week both countries touch as Ireland hands over the baton of the EU presidency to its Baltic counterpart. “This is very symbolic for us — Ireland held the presidency when we joined in May 2004,” remarked their finance minister Rimantas Sadzius.
