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The President of the European Commission will meet with President Duda in Lithuania

by AI | 09.Feb 2025 | Europe in brief AI

The Baltic States have decided to synchronize their electrical networks with those of continental Europe through Poland.

President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. Photo source: Multimedia Center/EP

The President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen will go to Lithuania on Sunday, where she is due to talk, among others, with President Andrzej Duda. The visit is related to the inauguration of the synchronization of the Baltic States’ energy networks with the EU grid, the EC informed.

“On Sunday, EC President Ursula von der Leyen will go to Vilnius (…) to deliver a speech at the event opening the synchronization of the Baltic interconnectors. The President will also meet with the President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda, the President of Poland Andrzej Duda, the President of Estonia Alar Karis, and the President of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs,” said EC spokesman Stefan De Keersmaecker in Brussels.

Another spokeswoman for the Commission Anna-Kaisa Itkonen added that the synchronization of the networks is a big event that has been awaited for 12 years. “We are very pleased that the Baltic states have decided to synchronize their power grids with those of continental Europe through Poland. This is a priority project for the Commission for the EU. We have been working on it for over a decade, and this synchronization is fully in line with our priority to move away from dependence on Russian fossil fuels,” she said.

The Baltic countries are the last in the EU to not yet be connected to the Continental Europe Synchronous Area (CESA) and have been operating within an energy cooperation using post-Soviet infrastructure. The decision to abandon this system was made more than 10 years ago due to changes in political relations between the EU, the Baltic countries, and Russia. Russia’s attack on Ukraine in February 2022 accelerated the implementation of this process.

The disconnection of the Baltic states from BRELL will take place on Saturday, and their synchronization with continental Europe the next day. The network switchover will begin in Lithuania – local lines will be connected to Poland’s – and end in Estonia. (02/08/2025)