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Motorways of the Baltic Sea
A Finnish idea and European initiative
During an official visit of the Lithuanian president Algirdas Brazauskas to Finland in May 2002, the Prime-Minister of Finland Paavo Lipponen introduced to his colleague and guest an idea that might become one of the first real breakthroughs in a new level of development for the European-Baltic transportation systems of the 21st century