On December 14th the prime ministers of the three Baltic states gathered in Vilnius to inaugurate two power lines to Poland and Sweden that would ease the region’s dependence on the Russian grid.

The three countries hope to have completed an interconnection project by 2025.

However, on Wednesday, an Estonian Member of the European Parliament, Kaja Kallas, suggests that Warsaw’s new "explicitly Euro-skeptic" government is not keen to invest in a project that does not seem sufficiently benef...