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Nordic/Baltic

Swedish PM on NATO: “We recognize that we can contribute to it’

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė met with Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson of the Kingdom of Sweden. The Prime Minister said at a news conference after the meeting that he and the visitor addressed the next NATO […]

Klaipėda Port
Central/Eastern Europe

Western optimism has turned into months of waiting: sanctions don’t seem to be working for Russia

Western optimism that sanctions on Russian goods will soon bring Russia to its knees has turned into months of waiting, but the aggressor’s economy has not collapsed, lrytas.lt portal reported. Summer and autumn have passed, […]

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European Union

Europe’s Single Market – turning thirty and still going strong

This year, the Single Market turns 30. In 1988, Jacques Delors famously remarked that “nobody falls in love with a Common Market”. Yet, Europeans wholeheartedly appreciate the comforts this market brought them, such as uniform […]

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Defence

Belarusians and Russians will be marching on our borders again: is it worth the flinch?

Russia and Belarus will launch another joint exercise across Belarus in a few days. They will also take place close to Lithuania’s borders. Military exercises in the neighbouring country are very frequent, and recently we […]