24/02/2003 (Agence Europe) - The European Parliament's Liberal Group had talks in Tallin, Estonia, last week on strengthening the European Union's Nordic dimension following the next enlargement. Estonia's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Siim Kallas and Kristina Ojuland, took part in the meeting. On that occasion, the Vice-President of the Liberal Group, Paavo Vayrynen, recalled the efforts his group had made since 1996 to promote the Union's Nordic dimension. And Sweden's Karl-Erik- Olsson placed special emphasis on saving the Baltic, a sea, he said, "a third of which the bottom is dead due to over-fishing and pollution". To succeed "we really must co-operate with neighbouring countries", he stated. As for British Liberal-Democrat, Diana Wallis, she referred to co-operation between the EU and bodies of the Arctic and the Barents Sea.