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The three Baltic prime ministers said in Vilnius on Friday that they were against EU sanctions on Poland over its judicial reform.

Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia on Thursday urged the leaders of the European Union (EU) to envisage funds in the community's new budget for synchronization of the Baltic electricity networks with Western Europe.

The Latvian prime minister's visit in Belarus may consolidate Latvia's chances of getting the biggest share of Belarusian freight at the expense of the Lithuanian Klaipėda port, says Laurynas Jonavičius, lecturer at the Vilnius University's International Relations and Political Science Institute.

Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says he has secured firm Polish support to synchronization of electricity grid with Western Europe via the existing power link, however, the remaining two Baltic states are still doubtful about the possibility.

The Baltic prime ministers say that their countries are ready for Zapad, a major military exercise to be held jointly by Russia and Belarus in September, and feel safe after NATO partners have deployed additional capabilities in the region.

After signing the agreement on development of the European-gauge Rail Baltica railway in Tallinn on Tuesday, prime ministers of the three Baltic states do not fear that the European Union (EU) may slash support to the project after 2020.