NATO has made major contribution to ensuring security for Eastern Europe and the Alliance will continue assessing allies’ requests and do everything to protect then, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says. […]
Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis has not denied that Lithuania is in talks with Norway‘s Statoil on a more flexible schedule of liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports, saying that various operating modes at Klaipėda LNG terminal and its possibilities are currently being tried out and that the ministry has asked companies related to the LNG facility to prepare for various possible scenarios. […]
Lithuania’s Vytautas Magnus University (VDU) will award an honorary doctorate to Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski. […]
Only Russia can stop the current arms race with NATO as it is the one carrying out aggressive policies, raising its military budget and militarizing its economy, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas says. […]
NATO‘s decision to increase its Response Force capability to up to 40,000 troops and set up headquarters in six Eastern European countries shows that NATO is capable of responding adequately to the changing security situation and making swift decisions, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
Lithuania has recently started discussing its attitudes towards homosexuality, in what remains a novelty for a country ranked among the most homophobic in the EU. […]
The British Embassy in Vilnius hosted an award ceremony to recognize the achievements of the participants of the Duke of Edinburgh International Award. This year, 17 participants of the programme received 15 Bronze and 2 Silver Awards. […]
Instability in the euro area results from fragmentation, chief economist for Lithuania at Nordea, the biggest financial group in the Nordic and Baltic countries, believes. […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Linas Linkevičius, has emphasised that the goal of NATO is to ensure security of its member states, not threaten or incite tensions. […]
A sociological poll has revealed that many people approve of legalising dual citizenship and would vote in favour of the proposal in a referendum. According to political scientist Algis Krupavičius, a referendum on dual citizenship might be successful if the matter was presented as the interest of the state and if numerous parties campaigned together. […]
On Monday, at one of the most important European Union (EU) annual transport events TEN-T days 2015, the representatives of the joint venture of the three Baltic States RB Rail presented the project Rail Baltica – a great example of a propriety infrastructure project of a common interest, reports the Ministry of Transport and Communications of Lithuania. […]
A Stockholm arbitration court will next week start hearing the Lithuanian government’s suit against Russia‘s gas supplier Gazprom over unfair gas prices. […]
The first heavy US weaponry should reach the Baltic states in early 2016, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence has said. […]
The US will pre-position heavy weapons, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and artillery in central and eastern Europe for the first time, US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said on Tuesday, AFP reports. […]
Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas met with is Norwegian counterpart Ine Eriksen Soereide and invited Norway to deploy a back-up contingent for the Baltic air policing mission in Lithuania in 2016. […]
The number of professional troops in the Lithuanian army will grow by more than a thousand, and discussions on the number of conscripts have been postponed until the fall after the Seimas of Lithuania on Tuesday endorsed the principled structure of the country’s army in 2016. […]
The European Central Bank‘s support to Greek banks, the so-called Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA), is likely to continue, the Lithuanian central bank governor said on Tuesday. […]
Lithuanian National Defence Minister Juozas Olekas remains in place after the country’s parliament on Tuesday accepted his interpellation answers regarding the search and rescue operation for a plane that crashed in the Baltic Sea in the middle of May. […]
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