Northern Dimension to include Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, the importance of the Northern Dimension has increased considerably: eight EU Member States (Denmark, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, and Sweden) surround the Baltic Sea, and the EU’s shared border with Russia has lengthened. Recent years have seen far-reaching changes in the geopolitical map of northern Europe. The Baltic States regained their independence in 1991. Finland and Sweden joined the EU in 1995, and Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland in 2004. These events greatly increased the Northern and Baltic “presence” of the EU, and substantially lengthened the common border shared by the
Poland–Sweden relations the power of each. At peak, the Swedes invaded Poland once, known as the Swedish Deluge, which later had razed much of Poland after serious destructions by the Swedish invaders. At 18th century, the partitions of Poland was the main hot detail in Sweden awake of the fear being partitioned by Russia, but after Russo–Swedish war ended in 1790, successful diplomatic missions from Sweden had finally prevented Sweden from suffering the same fate like Poland. Sweden was the main destination for many immigrants from partitioned Poland. During both World War I and World War II, the Polish community in Sweden