Lithuania is certainly not among the main players in international politics, where everyone is primarily self-interested. Thus, the country has to be particularly active and wise, otherwise, we may be left standing around regretfully at […]
What were the European Parliament elections in Lithuania like? Easily predicted. The large parties won, EP veterans and more conspicuous than any other electoral campaign participant Aušra Maldeikienė won. As long as the EP exists, […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has called on neighboring Belarus to reconsider its nuclear power plant (NPP) construction, said the Lithuanian government on Thursday in a statement. […]
Philosopher, politician and writer as well as presidential candidate Arvydas Juozaitis says that domestic policy is becoming more and more important and warns that we’ll be confronted with an even bigger wave of emigration and that, in his opinion, physical and military training in schools be stepped up. […]
On 7 February 2019, the Meeting of the Parties to the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention) in Geneva definitively concluded that during the construction of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) in the vicinity of the Lithuanian border and Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital city, Belarus had infringed three articles of the Convention thus failing to justify the selection of the construction site and consult with the countries that are most likely to be affected. […]
Lithuania must ensure the safety of the Astravyets nuclear power plant, under construction in Belarus, before it starts operating, a Lithuanian vice minister of foreign affairs says. […]
The Lithuanian government approved on Wednesday a plan for the evacuation of people in the event of an accident at the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant under construction in neighboring Belarus some 50 kilometers from Vilnius. […]
The European Commission is getting ready to start consultations with Russia over the switching of the Baltic states’ power networks off the post-Soviet system and their synchronization with that of western Europe. […]
The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has called on the Belarus nuclear regulatory authority not to issue a license to the Astravyets nuclear power plant under construction near Lithuania until the stress test recommendations are not implemented and the facility’s seismic resistance is not bolstered. […]
6,000 residents in Lithuania would have to be evacuated within a 30-km-radius from the Astravyets nuclear power plant in Belarus, in case of a major incident at this nuclear facility. […]
If Lithuania refuses to cooperate with Minsk, then Minsk will cooperate with Latvia, Belarussian President Aleksandr Lukashenko says. In other words, due to Lithuanian initiatives against Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant, Belarussian freight could be diverted […]
Lithuanian Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas hopes Washington will back Lithuania in its effort to stop the construction of the Astravyets nuclear power plant in Belarus, or to block power from the nuclear facility, if it started operating. […]
Žygimantas Vaičiūnas, Minister of Energy, stated last week that not a single kilowatt hour of electricity produced in the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) may be sold for commercial purposes in Lithuania because the law […]
Lithuanian Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas in on Tuesday leaving for Japan to discuss renewable energy, the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant‘s decommissioning and the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant under construction in Belarus with Japanese politicians and business people. […]
If there are any questions – they need answers, if there is any uncertainty – it needs explanation. Therefore, these answers are for those who still have doubts and reservations, whether Lithuania will buy electricity […]
German participation in the Nord Stream 2 project is a display of its hypocrisy: Germany wishes to be the leader of the EU, uphold a principled positon on Ukraine and Russia, but at the same […]
Commenting on Minsk’s statement that negotiations are underway with neighbors on the supply of electricity from its yet-to-be-finished Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant, the Lithuanian Energy Ministry reiterated on Wednesday that it is not holding any talks with Belarus and that a law bans selling power imported from the facility on the Lithuanian market. […]
A political agreement was signed in late June in Brussels regarding the Baltic States electricity network synchronisation with continental Europe. The process should conclude in 2025, but it is turning out that up to then, […]
Putin is winning? While the Russian national team dropped out of the football championship, just the championship itself was a propaganda victory for Putin. Millions of people, drawn to screens, which among other things were […]
The Belarussian Nuclear Power Plant (Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant) stress testing result evaluation from European Union investigators announced this week is “overall positive.” That said, the experts presented a number of recommendations to the Belarussian […]
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