EU policy coordination efficiency In Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia - comparative perspective

This article deals with coordination of EU policies in the three Baltic countries: Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Coordination refers in this context to a policical process of both reaching agreements and consensus on the content of positions representing interests of those countries in EU institutions, as well as determining how to implement the European law and EU policies on national level. The main objective of the article is to shortly analyze the criteria and main indicators of the efficiency of EU policies coordination in the Baltic States in comparative perspective as well as to point out strengths and weaknesses of the coordination systems in the Baltic states in the light of coordination efficiency requirements. The article points out some aspects of construction and functioning of the coordination systems in the Baltic States and evaluates their meaning in the context of the EU seven-years-lasting membership.