Piret Hartman Simonas Kairys Nauris Puntulis
Minister of Culture of the Minister of Culture of the Minister of Culture of the
Republic of Estonia Republic of Lithuania Republic of Latvia
3 March 2023
No. 1/0323-138
On the cooperation of the Baltic States to foster societal resilience, improve information
literacy and enhance daily information exchange in the region
Dear Ministers,
On behalf of the Baltic Assembly, we would like to express the assurances of our highest consideration
to the Baltic Council of Ministers.
On 2-3 February 2023, the meeting of the Education, Science and Culture Committee of the Baltic
Assembly was held in Vilnius. One of the issues that the parliamentarians, governmental
representatives and experts discussed was media cooperation in the Baltic States, including such topics
as fighting disinformation, fostering societal resilience and increasing media literacy in the region.
During the meeting, the experts from the Ministries of Culture of the Baltic States and the
parliamentarians agreed that the cooperation of the Baltic States to foster societal resilience, improve
information literacy and enhance daily information exchange in the region is vital. Despite the shared
understanding that the main challenges in the Baltic States remain essentially similar, the members of
the Committee see that too few concrete joint activities have been undertaken by the Baltic Ministries
of Culture and the competent authorities to address these challenges posed by Russian aggression and
modern reality. While the invited experts answered many of the questions posed by the Baltic
parliamentarians, some remained unanswered. The Committee wants to receive answers to the
following questions:
What is the level of cooperation of the media regulatory authorities of the Baltic States
regarding media policy and overcoming joint challenges? What are the main challenges to
closer cooperation?
What are the first steps to be made to start negotiations on a joint white paper on the strategic
goals to fight disinformation and increase the social resilience of the Baltic States through
increasing media competencies and media literacy in the Baltic region?
Could the Baltic States introduce a joint programme to improve media literacy in the Baltic
States? What are the benefits and challenges of creating such a programme?
What is required for creating a Baltic information platform serving as a reliable source of
knowledge about events and developments in the Baltic region in the Latvian, Estonian,
Lithuanian, English and Russian languages? What are the first steps to be made to move
towards launching such a joint platform or perhaps introduce other alternatives to ensure that
people in the Baltic States can easily access the news of the neighbouring countries?
How the Baltic States could jointly help fight Russian disinformation and propaganda in the
Eastern Partnership countries?
Following the discussions about the media cooperation of the Baltic States, the Committee has also
agreed on new proposals to the Baltic governments for improving the media cooperation and
information area of the Baltic States and Europe. They are as follows:
to develop a Baltic plan of action aiming to introduce an effective EU-level mechanism for
the protection of the European information area;
to jointly elaborate a proposal about introducing effective tools for countering disinformation
and propaganda in the European Media Freedom Act;
to create a Baltic database for materials about media literacy to facilitate the work of teachers
and students in the region.
Please accept the assurances of our highest consideration.
Sincerely,
President of Vice Chair of the Vice Chair of the
the Baltic Assembly Education, Science and Education, Science and
Culture Committee Culture Committee
Urve Tiidus Vytautas Juozapaitis Juris Viļums
Republic of Estonia Republic of Lithuania Republic of Latvia
Contact person: Agnija Antanoviča,
[email protected]
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To Whom It
May Concern,
On behalf
of the Baltic Assembly, I am sending the letter from the Education, Science and
Culture Committee of the Baltic Assembly addressed to the Ministers of Culture
of the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Lithuania and the Republic of
Latvia regarding the cooperation of the Baltic States to foster societal
resilience, improve information literacy and enhance daily information exchange
in the region.
Please,
find the letter attached to this email.
Sincerely,
Agnija Antanovi�a
Secretary General
Secretariat
of the Baltic Assembly
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