Trade relations between the EU and Russia will likely remain stable for many years, even as the overall volume of bilateral trade gradually contracts. Despite sanctions and conflict they are likely to remain important trading partners. […]
Ten high-ranking Russian intelligence and naval officers in Kaliningrad were fired over the last few weeks. Some believe the Kremlin took these drastic measures because of the fleet’s audacious actions that have put the West on edge, but others see more strategic reasons behind the move. […]
Russia’s president made a number of promises to reduce tensions with NATO in the Baltics and Eastern Europe but for reasons both practical and technological those promises cannot be kept. […]
Contradictory views on what Germany’s position should be in relation to NATO and Russia in the Baltics surfaced last week ahead of today’s NATO summit but those contradictions may reflect domestic political concerns as much as divergent foreign policy positions. […]
Leading up to every parliamentary election, political parties make promises to the electorate; that what it is they intend to achieve when they come to power. But how many of these pledges were actually fulfilled on defence and foreign policy? Leading analysts have their say. […]
Germans earn about five times more than Lithuanians, but the prices of goods in these two countries appear to be now almost the same. How could that be the case when there is such a differential in wages? […]
This month, the Lithuanian parliament rejected a conservative resolution, calling for the declaration of the Lithuanian Communist Party (LCP) a criminal organization and a perpetrator of genocide against the people in Lithuania. Thirty-seven MPs voted […]
While continuing to exchange barbs, the West and Russia are building a more institutionalized pattern of standoff in Europe that involves increasingly predictable tit-for-tat mirrored actions. Both sides profess their actions to be purely defensive, but these are increasingly robust defences. […]
Interwar Kaunas had a red light district, women were scandalizing conservative prudes with their skirts and haircuts and every other film shown in Kaunas cinemas was a naughty picture, historians say.
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A new railway tunnel linking the Baltics and Scandinavia could transform the geopolitics of the entire region, from the Nordics through the Baltic States to Europe.
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One of the biggest questions raised by Lithuanians in the wake of the United Kingdom’s vote to leave the European Union is what will happen to work migrants in the country. Will Brexit cause a wave of emigrants returning to Lithuania, and if so, what awaits them in Lithuania? […]
Britain’s historic decision to leave the European Union has exposed big fault lines inside the bloc. Unless the divisions are overcome as soon as possible, the markets will pounce on the euro, having already done so on the British pound. Uncertainty over when and how to negotiate Britain’s exit from the EU will lead to paralysis inside the bloc that Euroskeptic movements will exploit. The yawning gap between citizens, leaders, and the EU institutions will widen. And resentment could build up between the big and small member states. […]
With a new Labour Code being passed by Lithuania’s parliament, legal experts explained to the Lithuania Tribune the implications for the employment contracts for chief executives and top level managers in companies in Lithuania. The […]
Well-known Lithuanian basketball and football players have fallen victim to a swindler who promised them a 40% return on a four-month investment in his Greek god busts business, Lietuvos Rytas reports. One of those stars […]
There are a range of proven tactics that the West could use to destabilise Vladimir Putin‘s regime in Russia but the question is whether Western countries believe such action would lead to a Russia more favourable to Western interests. […]
By now, it has become clear that the heated confrontation in Britain over the issue of Brexit has very little to do with the actual arguments, especially among those who want the UK to leave the European Union when the country votes on the question in a referendum this week. […]
If Britain opts to leave the European Union in next week’s referendum, the repercussions will be felt far and wide, casting doubts on PM David Cameron’s leadership and emboldening other European nations to follow suit. […]
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