Year: 2015

EU's Riga Summit
Opinion

Opinion: The Riga Summit and its outcomes

July 8, 2015 George Rukhadze 0

The fourth Eastern Partnership Summit was held in Riga on 21-22 May 2015. The joint Declaration of the Riga Summit did not reaffirm either the European perspective of the Eastern European Partnership countries consistently demonstrating the best performance or the political support to Georgia and Ukraine in visa liberalization that Tbilisi and Kiev were looking forward to. Quite the opposite, compared to the Vilnius Summit document adopted two years ago, the tone and ambition of the Riga Summit declaration seemed rather weakened. […]

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Uncategorized

Estonia would buy Greek weapons

July 8, 2015 ELTA EN 0

University of Thessaly economy professor Christos Kollias, who has close ties to the Greek army, predicts that Greece will start selling used military equipment to cut costs and will start closing military bases, Aripaev Online cites political portal Politico. […]

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Society

Historian Nikžentaitis: Singing Lithuania’s national anthem across the globe is good basis for establishing dual citizenship

July 8, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Lithuania knows the exact day when it became part of Europe. That was on 6 July 1253, when Duke Mindaugas, shortly after having accepted baptism, was crowned by the Pope of Rome the king of still largely pagan lands. The 6 of July is now celebrated as Lithuania’s Statehood Day and although its a holiday of recent vintage (it was not observed before the 1990s), it already involves a tradition. Each 6 July, Lithuanians in the country and abroad join in the singing of the national anthem. […]

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Defence

US general in Lithuania: You’ll see increasing exercises in Baltics

July 7, 2015 BNS 0

Visiting Chief of Staff of the United States Army General Raymond T. Odierno says military exercises in the Baltic states will be of “greater sizes” in the future. […]

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Defence

Lithuania army suspends purchase of German weaponry amidst suspicions of defects

July 7, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania is getting involved in an internationally-escalating scandal centred around G36 assault rifles produced by German company Heckler & Koch. […]

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European Union

Lithuanian PM: Greece will remain in eurozone

July 7, 2015 BNS 0

Greece will remain in the eurozone despite the Greeks’ decision in the recent referendum to reject the creditors’ proposed reforms and austerity measures, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius believes. […]