Latvia is "sick man" (Independent). Austerity in Lithuania (NYT):
“The internal devaluation strategy may have succeeded in delivering short-term stabilization, but at what cost?” asked Charles Woolfson, a professor of labor studies at the University of Glasgow who has expertise in the Baltics. Professor Woolfson points out that deepening social alienation in Lithuania has resulted in the sharpest rise in emigration since the country joined the European Union in 2004. “Then it was the migration of the hopeful,” he said. “Now it is the migration of the despairing.”
