On 20 November, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas met with Minister of National Defence of Canada Harjit Sajjan while attending the Halifax International Security Forum in Nova Scotia, the Lithuanian ministry reports. […]
On Friday, 20 November, at 11:00 a.m., Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will meet with Latvian President Raimonds Vejonis and Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves at the Palanga Amber Museum. […]
According to Lithuania’s National Defence Minister Juozas Olekas, Lithuania at the moment would be ready to accept 6,000-8,000 NATO troops without any major logistical issues. […]
On 27 October 2014, the port of Klaipėda on the sea coast of Lithuania was crowded with people and heads of the Baltic States. The day marked a new era in the energy security sector for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, as an LNG ship called “Independence” was met with Lithuanian flags waving high. Even higher were the expectations of this floating LNG terminal which at the time analysts called “a game changer” in the Baltic gas sector. However, one year on, Lithuanian government is struggling to find ways to lower the FSRU costs and expand their gas market – “Independence” has become an expensive burden. […]
On 2 November in Vilnius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius welcomed the participants of the roundtable discussion Transatlantic Renewal and thanked them for their effort to develop the vision of a free and united Europe, Lithuania’s MFA reports. […]
On 20 October in Vilnius, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Andrius Krivas, officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National Defence met with a group of experts from the Influential US think tank Atlantic Council, led by Magnus Nordenman, to discuss current challenges to Lithuania’s security, measures to ensure security and potential support from allies in this field. […]
In the latest article of this series (“Putin’s Russia. Kremlin’s Goal No. 1”) I analysed the theory and practice of Russian foreign policy trying to ground the thesis that Kremlin’s main goal is to undermine the EU and NATO, and bring the world back to the times of international power balance. […]
Logistics and movement control specialists of the Lithuanian Armed Forces and Mobile Refuelling Unit will provide logistical support to Lithuanian and allied troops taking part in NATO‘s Exercise Trident Juncture 2015 in Spain until 6 November, the Ministry of National Defence reports. […]
Professional services firm Ernst & Young (EY) has published its latest economic forecast for the euro area. It is projected that Lithuania’s GDP growth will stand at 2.1 percent in 2015 and 3.6 percent in 2016. Meanwhile, GDP growth in the euro area will stand at 1.6 and 1.8 percent respectively. […]
Representatives of Poland, Lithuania and the European Commission signed a funding agreement for the Gas Interconnection Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) on Thursday, securing the EU’s funding for the project that will enable free gas flow between Poland and the Baltic states. […]
Lithuania’s Kauno Tiltai AB, the largest transportation infrastructure company in the Baltics, and Mitnija UAB, the largest construction company in Lithuania, have finished laying, remodelling and upgrading the first European gauge railway from Šeštokai town to Marijampolė town (Lithuania), Mitnija said in a press release. […]
At Thursday’s NATO Defence Ministerial meeting in Brussels, UK Defence Secretary Michael Fallon announced that the UK would deploy a persistent military presence to the Baltic states. […]
Former Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen expressed the view to the Ukrainian news site APOSTROF that NATO would be ready to repel any possible military attack from Russia against the Baltic states. […]
Futurist Nicklas Bergman has been investing in new technology for over 20 years. He cooperates closely with Washington-based think tank Tech Cast and Lund University. Mr. Bergman will talk about future technology in Vilnius Innovation Forum 2015, organised by the Ministry of Economy of Lithuania and the Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology. The expert will discuss the changing relationship between the society and technology and its importance to our lives. […]
By one of its definitions, hybrid war involves classical military actions as well as undermining activities, energy, economic and finance warfare and, most importantly, information warfare. This is the kind of hybrid war that Russian Federation is waging against Ukraine. However, in one of his articles, the Russian expert, Andrey Ilarionov mentioned, that rather from being just a conflict between two countries, the war between Russia and Ukraine is a full-scale confrontation between the West and Russia. Unfortunately, Georgia found itself on the front line of this fierce confrontation between civilizations and has hence become one of the hotspots of information warfare. […]
The innovative fund-of-funds investment initiative – the Baltic Innovation Fund (BIF), dedicated to boosting equity investments made into Baltic enterprises, launched by Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia and the European Investment Fund (EIF), has been increased. The EUR 30 million increase of BIF is expected to translate into an additional EUR 100 million of private equity and venture capital funding available in the Baltic States over the next 5-7 years, Startup Lithuania reports. […]
Most of the time history can’t be put to bed even though agreements to end wars have been concluded, victors have drawn new boundary lines, promises made, but they soon get either forgotten or swept under the rug, as if they weren’t there. The story of the northern part of former East Prussia (now known as the Kaliningrad exclave) is a good example of a conveniently ignored agreement made at the 1945 Potsdam conference to resolve the fate of the territory at a later peace treaty with Germany. […]
Orlen Lietuva benefits from restructuring and very favourable macroeconomic conditions. Production capacity utilisation reached 86 percent in the second quarter of 2015 (reaching 92 percent in June, which was the highest level since two years). […]
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