Special envoy to Talinn
There are always two worlds in Europe.
The one in the west, where war is scary.
It is so out of mind since the fall of the Berlin Wall that it sometimes paralyzes the thinking of political leaders.
And that of the east, where the conflict in Ukraine is seen as a means of freeing oneself, finally, from the Russian threat.
This hope ran through all the discussions at the Lennart Meri international conference, organized as every year in mid-May in Tallinn, Estonia.
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