In the lead-up to the European Union‘s Eastern Partnership summit, officials in Brussels hail improving relations with Belarus, but promise Lithuania that they will keep up pressure on Minsk to ensure the safety and security of its Astravyets nuclear power plant. […]
“The summit in Brussels should be forward-looking, injecting new dynamism providing a clear political vision for the future of our Eastern Partnership. Differentiation is key. As our resources are limited, the principle of ‘more for more and less for less’ should be implemented. We should focus our resources much more on those Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries who have made remarkable progress on their European path”, said Laima Andrikienė MEP, co-author of the European Parliament’s recommendations ahead of the EaP Summit on 24 November. […]
Belarus’ opposition activists are skeptical about Brussels’ decision to invite the country’s authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, to the so-called Eastern Partnership summit in late November. […]
An international policy conference hosted by former President Valdas Adamkus will be held in Vilnius on Tuesday. Its goal is to gather the best minds of the Eastern region, to renew regional leadership and help […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has dismissed the statement by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko about training of armed provokers in Lithuania as fiction out of the blue. […]
Lithuanian Green Party Chairman Linas Balsys has expressed a number of critical remarks toward the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats the President Dalia Grybauskaitė. His criticisms mainly focus on the aforementioned and their efforts to oppose […]
An opposition figure has been elected to the Belarusian parliament for the first time in a decade, however, the fact does not mean major changes in the country ruled by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, says Lithuanian political scientist Vytis Jurkonis. […]
The Belarusian Ministry of Energy confirmed, on July 26, that an emergency situation occurred earlier that month at the construction site of the Belarusian nuclear power plant (NPP). The power station is being built 18 kilometers from the town of Ostrovets (Grodno oblast), and some 50 km from Vilnius, Lithuania. […]
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said that Lithuania should think of helping his country run the nuclear power plant, which Vilnius has vehemently criticized as unsafe.
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An environmental impact assessment report that Belarus has presented to Lithuania regarding its Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant reads like it was written with an automated translation engine and raises concerns that nuclear safety is not taken seriously, Lithuanian experts say. […]
Belarusian journalist and author Svetlana Alexievich, who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, said during a visit in Lithuania that the Belarusian government’s decision to build Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant was a crime. […]
Lukashenko’s fortunes have changed. Once known as “Europe’s last dictator,” he has won friends in Europe, while antagonizing his traditional ally, Russia. It’s a situation that has left the Kremlin in a difficult positon: should it punish Belarus for its pro-Western tendencies? Or should it continue to prop up the Belarusian economy rather than risk further unrest in the region? […]
The European Humanities University (EHU), a Vilnius-based Belarusian school in exile, is holding a donors’ conference on Thursday to discuss the university’s finances and future role. […]
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that the European Union is likely to lift all existing sanctions on Belarus. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has been named among Ukraine‘s most-liked foreign leaders, according to a new survey. […]
The Lithuanian government does not expect Belarus to take retaliatory measures against Lithuania over the country trying to block the construction of a new Belarusian nuclear power plant at Astravyets, said Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis. […]
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