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‘Adversaries know migration is our vulnerability,’ says Kaja Kallas, spelling out negative consequences to Europe of Ukrainian defeatVladimir Putin is seeking to weaponise the threat of mass migration to divide and weaken Europe as supporters of Ukraine struggle to maintain unity to defeat Russia, Kaja Kallas, the Estonian prime minister, says.“What our adversaries know is migration is our vulnerability,” she said. “The aim is...

Salome Zurabishvili says protests in Tbilisi prove Georgians ‘will never return to Russian pressure’Europe live – latest updatesGeorgia is “returning to the past” through the new foreign agents law, the president of the former Soviet state has said, as EU ministers urged the government to “take a way out”.Speaking at a press conference with the foreign ministers of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Iceland, Salome...

Hanah Lahe is just 24 but she is already a leading voice for change in the former Soviet Baltic stateHanah Lahe can’t remember the fall of the iron curtain. Estonia’s youngest MP grew up surfing the web and consuming American television. Just nine years before her birth, it was all so different. When borders reopened after the end of Soviet rule in 1991, Estonians...