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"New Hansa Lines" was created in 2003. It is a non-state organisation that promotes the establishment of effective interactive mechanisms between non-governmental organisations to create a NEW HANSA regional community that could include the Scandinavian countries (Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark), the Baltic states (Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia), part of Poland, Northern Germany, cross-border oblasts of Russia, St. Petersburg, Novgorod, the northern ports – Murmansk and Nikel, Kaliningrad oblast and the cross-border areas of Belarus. The aim of this union would be to create a single economic and social region with lasting cross-border ties.
John O'Sullivan
The ex-editor "The National Interest Magazine"
Ladies and gentlemen, history did not begin in 1940. Let us remember the Hanseatic League which was founded on the voluntary co-operation of cities and their residents. Both the wealth and the well-being of the Hanseatic cities shows that this alliance worked very well. Then, for many years, all this lay dormant. But if good work and enterprise exist in the culture of any people, they can easily be restored. This must happen in Latvia and the Baltic states.
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