Foreign affairs
Lithuanian president says UK should decide what it wants in Brexit talks
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says the United Kingdom should decide what it wants to achieve in stalling Brexit negotiations. […]
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European Union
Lithuanian president, EU leaders to discuss stalling Brexit in Brussels
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is on Wednesday leaving for Brussels to meet with other EU leaders and discuss the United Kingdom’s stalling exit from the European Union. […]
European Union
Lithuanian president calls for avoiding chaotic Brexit
Attending an informal meeting of EU leaders on Thursday, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė called on the EU and London to avoid an uncontrollable Brexit. […]
European Union
Lithuania to back Ireland on border issue in Brexit talks
Lithuania vowed on Wednesday to support Ireland on the border issue in Brexit negotiations. […]
European Union
Former Estonian PM Rõivas: let’s talk about good examples of Baltic cooperation
Former Estonians Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas, who was the youngest Prime Minister in Europe for three years, talked to the Lithuania Tribune (EN.DELFI) about the current European affairs, the transatlantic cooperation, benefits of free trade and where the Baltic States should cooperate more. […]
Society
Lithuania’s H1 immigration doubles, emigration down by almost a fourth
Lithuania’s immigration rate more than doubled in the first half of this year compared with a year ago, while its emigration rate fell by almost one-fourth, according to the latest official statistics. […]
European Union
EU’s Brexit negotiator says talks on citizens’ rights can’t be reopened
EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier says that an agreement on the rights of EU nationals living in the United Kingdom has already been reached and this point will not be reopened. […]
European Union
Barnier in Vilnius: EU citizens’ rights in UK to be protected
EU chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said in Vilnius on Wednesday that the rights of Lithuanians and other EU citizens already living in Britain will be protected. […]
Foreign affairs
EU Brexit negotiator Barnier to meet with Lithuanian leaders
The European Union‘s top Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier is starting his visit to Lithuania on Wednesday and is scheduled to meet with Lithuanian leaders. […]
CORPORATE
Kęstutis Girnius. Three for the European Union and Lithuania
The European Union member states are struggling with three major problems – migration, strengthening the Eurozone and the United Kingdom‘s withdrawal conditions. The first question worries the so-called populists the most, the second – France, […]
CORPORATE
Putin is within easy reach of the Achilles’ heel of NATO
It is now literally just a matter of months before Putin‘s Russia could shake the foundations of NATO and the security structure of Europe. Moreover, Putin may have the opportunity to do this with elegance, with simplicity and in perfect legality. The possible gains for Russia far outweigh any reason for restraint. All signs indicate that Kremlin strategists have long been aware of the opportunity, and have been actively working to seize it. The groundwork is ongoing and plain to see. In autumn of this year, politicians loyal to the Kremlin will be in a position, formally and legally, to take political control of the central Baltic State – Latvia. The next step would be technically simple – a newly elected government, beholden to Moscow, would withdraw Latvia from NATO. And this would change everything far more profoundly than we might imagine. […]
Foreign affairs
Irish president’s visit to Lithuania: 3 key topics
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with her Irish counterpart, Michael D. Higgins, in Vilnius on Tuesday. […]
Foreign affairs
Ireland’s president to visit Lithuania
Ireland‘s President Michael D. Higgins is coming on a two-day official visit to Lithuania on Tuesday. […]
Opinion
Digital Warfare: European elves vs. Kremlin (Russian) trolls
Russian information weapons and the creation of an ‘alternative reality” Nowadays Russian propaganda and disinformation reaches unprecedented levels. After the military aggression against Ukraine in 2014, i. e. annexation of Crimea and military aggression in […]
European Union
Lithuanian PM going to Brussels to negotiate EU support
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is going to Brussels on Wednesday to present Lithuania’s position on the European Union‘s 2021–2027 budget to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. […]
European Union
Leading German MEP calls on Lithuania to choose Europe in disputes with US
Manfred Weber, leader of the European Parliament‘s largest political group, says that Lithuania should choose Europe amid recent tensions between the European Union and the United States. […]
Opinion
Vaidotas Beniušis. Lithuanian media landscape: journalists or political activists?
I had a discussion with students from a school in Visaginas, northeastern Lithuania, last week and asked them to describe a good journalist. One student said: one who does not impose his opinion and who is impartial. It’s now harder to find such journalists in Lithuania than it used to be. […]
Energy
Brussels proposes EUR 552 mln for Lithuanian N-plant closure in new EU budget
The European Commission proposes to allocate 552 million euros at current prices in the EU‘s 2021-2027 budget for the decommissioning of Lithuania’s Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP). […]
Economy
Antanas Guoga: Blockchain can empower lots of people to help change the world
Antanas Guoga tells us why he is betting big on blockchain technologies. The Lithuanian EPP group deputy knows a winner when he sees one, and he is very excited by the opportunities that blockchain technologies can offer. He finds the technology “fascinating”. […]
Opinion
Europe, We Have a Problem!
Surely many people will remember the famous story about the Apollo 13 spaceship which almost killed three astronauts in April 1970 because of technical problems. The astronauts saved themselves thanks to their professionalism and to the self-denying and highly professional activities of the support team that was on the Earth. Several movies have been devoted to this subject, the best known of which is Apollo 13 (1995). Many people will also remember the phrase which the astronauts expressed when admitting that there were serious problems: “Houston, we have a problem.” […]