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Defence

NATO jets alerted by 11 Russian war planes over Baltic Sea

Italy‘s Typhoon fighter-jets serving in the NATO air policing mission of the Baltic states were scrambled from Šiauliai air base in late hours of Tuesday to escort 11 Russian war planes flying above the Baltic Sea from mainland Russia to its Kaliningrad region. […]

Economy

Lithuania and Poland establish Chamber of Commerce

The newly founded association the Polish-Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce has been officially launched this week. Its goal is to help businesses of the two countries to establish and strengthen business ties, promote cross-border cooperation, trade and investment. […]

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Energy

Lithuanian government to consider ways to use 1.4bn it may win from Gazprom

Lithuania’s government is starting to discuss ways to spend approximately 1.4 billion euros, which it may receive as compensation from Gazprom if the Stockholm arbitration court sides with Lithuania in its dispute with the Russian gas giant. […]

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European Union

EU must maintain ambitious Eastern Partnership agenda, Lithuanian foreign minister insists

At the Foreign Affairs Council meeting on 16 March in Brussels, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius, while speaking about the upcoming Eastern Partnership Summit on 21-22 May 2015, noted that it was important to set a strategic direction for Eastern Partnership and take a further step forward from the Warsaw and Vilnius Summits, Lithuania’s MFA said. […]

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Russian military flexes muscles near Baltics

Several units of the Baltic fleet and in the Southern Military District of the Russian Armed Forces have been put on high alert for a large-scale strategic military exercise in Russia, news agency Interfax reports. […]