EPISODE SUMMARY
Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have in many areas broken with the difficult heritage of the Soviet Union. One key element in their fight for independence has been energy independence. Now, with increasing global awareness, the time has come for an ecological transformation.

EPISODE NOTES
In the coming years, the European Union’s "Green Deal" will have a strong impact on the economies and societies of the regions once belonging to the Soviet Union. At the same time, Germany is the greatest advocate of increasing the ambitions of Europe’s climate policy. The leaders of these changes, including the Nordic countries, are tightening the standards and targets for reducing carbon dioxide in the environment. This is also a serious challenge for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.
Katarzyna Dośpiał-Borysiak from the Faculty of International and Political Studies at the University of Łódź tells how the countries that once belonged to the Soviet Union deal with this difficult heritage. Does Ukraine, a country full of political, economic and social problems, striving to join the European Union, even think about entering the orbit of climate tasks? And yet it is precisely this that may decide whether or not to be in the EU in the future.

SHOW CONTRIBUTORS
Katarzyna Dośpiał – Borysiak
Michał Żakowski
Adam Reichardt