On 28–29 April 2026, President Edgars Rinkēvičs participated in the annual Three Seas Initiative Summit and Business Forum in Dubrovnik, Croatia.
At the Three Seas Initiative Summit, the President emphasized the need to focus all efforts over the next decade on strengthening the initiative’s strategic pillars: energy security, connectivity, and digital transformation. “It is essential to strengthen north-south links across the entire Three Seas region by diversifying supply chains and building more resilient and deeper partnerships. To achieve this, we must invest in stronger logistics, better digital connectivity, and a coordinated energy strategy,” said E. Rinkēvičs.
The President also took part in the presidential panel of the Three Seas Initiative Business Forum alongside representatives from Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. During the forum, the President highlighted the growing importance of the Three Seas region, noting that its significance will only increase in the future. He emphasised the need to continue developing strategic projects across the initiative’s three development pillars. Both private sector engagement and cooperation within the region, as well as with transatlantic partners, will play a key role.
The Three Seas Initiative is an economic cooperation platform established in 2016, comprising 13 European Union member states geographically situated between the Adriatic, Baltic and Black Seas – Latvia, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czechia, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The initiative was created to develop physical infrastructure projects and bridge connectivity gaps in the fields of energy, transport and digital infrastructure across the EU’s North-South region. Associated partner states include Albania, Ukraine, Moldova and Montenegro, while strategic partners include the United States, Germany, Japan, Spain, Turkey and the European Commission.
