The Three Seas Initiative  is a 12-country regional platform founded six years ago, located between the Baltic, Black, and Adriatic seas. The platform, which was politically motivated but economically driven continues to work towards strengthening the so-called "smart connectivity" from North to South and back. By advancing the discussion about the necessity of addressing the shortcomings in the energy, transport, and digital connectivity challenges, the Three Seas initiative has demonstrated its potential as a mechanism for cooperation and investment that might continue to reduce the gap between Central and Eastern Europe in the future. 

Listen to the podcast produced by the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation where the Foreign Affairs Expert Mārtiņš Vargulis and  Ambassador at Large For Three Seas Initiative at the MFA of Latvia H.E. Edgars Bondars provide the informal follow-up to the discussions of the Riga Summit of the Three Seas Initiative, given these and other crucial topics. The Podcast will offer a brief history, the importance of the initiative for our region, lessons learned, platform pillars and ideas, as well as trends on external actors, and the potential contribution of Latvia. 

The interview is part of a series developed in the context of the annual Rīga Conferences organized by the Latvian Transatlantic Organisation in cooperation with the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Latvia and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Latvia. The purpose of the series is to keep discussions alive in between consecutive conferences.