Support for the EU in the Baltic states is high. In Lithuania, 79% of the population see EU membership as a “good thing”, 18% say it is neither “good nor bad” and only 2% believe it is “bad”, according to the latest poll from Eurobarometer. Significant majorities in Estonia (67%) and Latvia (62%) also see membership of the 27-state bloc as positive, the same survey found. There are many reasons why. The EU has brought multiple benefits to these tiny eastern European states, annexed by the Soviet Union until 1991. These include visa-free travel, economic development and human rights – to name j…