Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant

  • Energy
  • European Union

EU energy commissioner ‘backs Lithuania’s position on Belarus nuclear plant’

EU Climate Action and Energy Commissioner Miguel Arias Canete supports Lithuania's position that Belarus' nuclear power plant under construction in…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE

Masiulis pushes common position on Belarus nuclear plant with Latvian, Estonian ministers

Lithuanian Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis met with Latvian Deputy Prime Minister Arvils Ašeradens and Estonian economy and infrastructure minister Kristen…

9 years ago
  • Energy

Estonia ‘supports Lithuania’s concerns over Astravyets NPP’

Estonia's environment minister supports Lithuania's concerns about Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant that Belarus is building just 50km from Vilnius, according…

9 years ago
  • Energy

Lithuania ‘can still stop Belarus nuclear plant’

Lithuania can still stop the construction of Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant in Belarus, says Russian engineer Andrei Ozharovsky who has…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE

Lithuanian president to raise Astravyets NPP issue at Nuclear Security Summit

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is planning to raise the issue of Belarus' Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant at the Nuclear Security…

9 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Poland agrees on import ban on electricity from ‘unsafe power plants’, says Lithuanian energy minister

Poland agrees with Lithuania's and other Baltic states that electricity from unsafe power plants should not be imported, said Lithuanian…

9 years ago
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Environment Minister accuses Belarus of playing games with Astravyets nuclear power plant

Belarus is playing games over the Astravyets nuclear power plant and its answers about safety sound like a broken record,…

9 years ago
  • Energy

International committee to address Lithuania-Belarus dispute over nuclear plant

A meeting in Geneva on Tuesday is to discuss progress that Belarus has made in reassuring Lithuania about a nuclear…

9 years ago
  • Energy

Lithuanian PM asks experts if blocking power from Belarus nuclear plant is possible

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has asked his energy minister to find out if it is technically possible to restrict the…

9 years ago
  • Politics

Lithuania’s major parties come together to oppose Belarus nuclear plant

Lithuania’s major political parties will work out an agreement to present a unified front opposing the threat posed by the…

9 years ago
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Latvian PM backs Lithuania in opposing Belarusian nuclear plant

Latvia will back Lithuania in opposing the construction of a nuclear power plant some 50 kilometres from Vilnius in Belarus,…

9 years ago
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Lithuanian PM calls on Latvia, Estonia to act on Belarus nuclear plant

Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius called on the other Baltic States and the European Commission to step up efforts to…

9 years ago
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  • Opinion

Change of tactics needed on Belarus nuclear plant

The European Union along with Lithuania has recently softened its tone towards Belarus - often called the "last dictatorship of…

9 years ago
  • Energy

Grybauskaitė encourages EU to take action on Belarus nuclear power plant

The safety of the Astravyets nuclear power plant that Belarus is building near the border with Lithuania should be a…

9 years ago
  • Energy

Belarus nuclear plant just being used as election ploy, says Lithuanian analyst

Lithuania has been vocally protesting against Belarus' plans to build a new nuclear power plant in Astravyets, some 50km from…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE

‘We need to stand together as Lithuanians against Belarus nuclear plant’ – Landsbergis

The Restoration Parliament Chairman Vytautas Landsbergis has called on all Lithuanians to unite in opposing the Astravyets nuclear power plant…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE

Belarus will not retaliate over Lithuania blocking nuclear plant, says Masiulis

The Lithuanian government does not expect Belarus to take retaliatory measures against Lithuania over the country trying to block the…

9 years ago
  • Energy

Lithuania needs political consensus on Belarus nuclear power plant, says minister of energy

Minister of Energy Rokas Masiulis says that a broad political consensus is needed in Lithuania on the issue of the…

9 years ago
  • Energy
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuanian government must halt Belarus nuclear plant, say former heads of state

Two former Lithuanian leaders – ex-president Valdas Adamkus and the country's first post-independence leader Vytautas Landsbergis – have urged the…

9 years ago
  • Uncategorized

Belarus nuclear power plant has to meet international standards, says Foreign Minister

Lithuania is demanding that the construction of a Russian-funded nuclear power plant in Astravyets, Belarus, will meet international standards. The…

9 years ago