ABSTRACT
This chapter deals with the effects for the EU’s subjectivity in northern Europe that ensued from Latvia’s accession as a new semi-insider into the Union in May 2004. Alongside Estonia and Poland, Latvia’s EU referendum was initially expected to be one of the tightest. And in the same fashion as in Estonia, a large part of the country’s Russophones were not allowed to vote because they lacked Latvian citizenship. But the comfortable end result of 69 per cent ‘yes’ votes gives us a good reason to look in more detail at what Latvia will bring into the Union and its ‘north Europeanness’.1
