Eastern Europe Can Lure Its Workers Back. Two Towns Show How

A small and fairly ordinary-looking Baltic town toward the eastern limit of the euro area can help explain a lot about the region’s migration shifts.

Split by a border after World War I, one part is in Estonia and is known as Valga, while the other is in Latvia and is called Valka. Together, they’re currently home to about 17,500 people, many of whom have started thinking more in recent years about which side of the divide is best.