Astravyets NPP
Energy

EC calls on Belarus to assess Astravyets NPP’s seismic safety, improve accident management

The European Commission is expected to publish on Wednesday a stress test review of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant, under construction in Belarus. According to the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the report revealed quite a number of the projects’ drawbacks, and experts from the EU and other countries presented important recommendations on ways to eliminate them and improve the nuclear facility’s safety level. […]

Linas Linkevičius
Energy

Astravyets NPP’s stress tests are only beginning of road – Lithuanian formin

The European Nuclear Safety Regulators Group (ENSREG) review of the stress tests carried out at the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant, under construction in Belarus, which revealed a number of drawbacks, is just the beginning of its assessment, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said. […]

Astravyets NPP Construction
Foreign affairs

EU to present Belarusian N-plant stress test results next week – Lithuanian diplomat

The European Union will next week present the results of stress tests at the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) under construction in Belarus close to its border with Lithuania, President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s foreign policy advisor said on Tuesday. […]

CORPORATE

Žygimantas Pavilionis. Emanuelis Zingeris. Fourteen years in EU foreign policy: what are the achievements?

We mark twenty five years since the entry into force of the Maastricht Treaty introducing the common foreign and security policy of the European Union (EU), to which Lithuania actively contributed from the very outset, […]

Žygimantas Pavilionis
CORPORATE

Žygimantas Pavilionis. The day we recovered leadership

Brussels was turning a deaf ear on us for a long while. After Putin surged in Russia’s politics, Lithuanians and Poles alike went to great lengths, even blocking decisions in the Council of the European […]