Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is unsure how many refugees Lithuania will have to accept because the number will vary depending on how many people the European Union (EU) decides to relocate. […]
The NATO air policing mission in the Baltic states was cut down from September because more than half of the fighter-jets assigned to the mission had been standing idle for the past six months, says the head of the Alliance’s Military Committee General Petr Pavel. […]
Establishing an international institution for investigating Communist crimes would be a rather symbolic act, but it will probably would not lead to prosecution of those behind the Communist repressions, says Professor Justinas Žilinskas of the Lithuanian Mykolas Romeris University’s Department of International and European Union Law. […]
Czech President Miloš Zeman has said that Russia‘s attack on the Baltic States would be suicidal for Moscow because the attack would drag NATO into a fight. […]
Russia has actively worked to boost its leverage in Central Europe over the past few years, and the crisis in Ukraine has only heightened the Kremlin’s interest in the region. Russia aims to use commercial and political ties to undermine Western institutions and to steer Central Europe toward Russian interests. […]
The Lithuanian government on Wednesday backed the appointment of Marius Janukonis, director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs‘ Eastern Neighbourhood Policy Department, as the country’s ambassador to Ukraine. Diplomat Edvilas Raudonikis will be appointed as Lithuania’s ambassador to the Czech Republic. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has extended sincere condolences to Czech President Miloš Zeman over the deadly shooting in Uhersky Brod on Tuesday. […]
On 3 February, director of the NATO Energy Security Centre of Excellence (NATO ENSEC COE) Colonel Gintautas Bagdonas and deputy director-general of the Office for Foreign Relations and Information of the Czech Republic Jan Padourek signed a voluntary national contribution arrangement which will serve as a basis for the Czech Republic to join the NATO ENSEC COE, the Ministry of National Defence informs. […]
The spread of the Ukrainian crisis has aroused strong reactions of the USA and the European Union against Russian interference in Ukrainian politics. Russia is a strategic market for Europe and the close trades and financial links have pushed the European Union in the direction of a more moderate and careful response, at first. Because of the stalemate in the dialogue between Moscow and Kiev and the threat of a Russian military intervention in Ukraine, the EU has aligned its plan sanctions against Russia with the USA one, between July and September. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of Healthcare has asked for 490,000 litas (over EUR 140,000) in additional funding to prepare for the treatment of patients with Ebola, if the virus reaches Lithuania. […]
On Monday, an agreement was signed in Prague, Czech Republic, over the implementation of the European Union scientific research project ELI-Beamlines. […]
An interview with Andras Racz, a Senior Research Fellow at the Hungarian Institute of International Affairs. […]
On Friday, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met with Ambassador of the Czech Republic Radek Pech, who ends his term in Lithuania, the prime minister’s office announces. […]
The ambassadors of the Czech Republic and Spain are ending their terms in Vilnius this July and will be replaced by new diplomats, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry has said. […]
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