US President Donald Trump has congratulated Lithuania on the upcoming independence anniversary, thanking for its support to Ukraine and commending for the growing defence spending. […]
“The USA elected a new president, we respect the Americans’ decision. We have to get used to the fact that Donald J. Trump is the new US President who we will need to call if […]
Lithuania should not tie itself to specific financing figures as its defence spending will depend on geopolitical challenges and available financial resources, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Wednesday. […]
Lithuania needs a bigger defence budget to ensure cyber security and prepare for universal military conscription, says Vytautas Bakas, chairman of the parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defence, which has recently called on political parties to commit to increasing defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP in 2020. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis supports lawmakers’ proposal to update a defense policy agreement among political parties to include a commitment to gradually increase defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP in 2020. […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s National Security and Defence Committee has decided to initiate update of the agreement reached among political parties on defence spending. […]
Lithuania’s updated National Security Strategy will highlight corruption and social exclusion as threats, the chairman of the parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defence said on January 9. […]
The Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) is considering revising an agreement on the country’s foreign, security and defense policy guidelines that was signed by parliamentary parties almost three years ago, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Thursday. […]
We have to agree on what kind of society we wish to live in says Lithuanian economist, macroeconomic policy and public economy expert, Professor Raimondas Kuodis, who notes that with 26 years having passed since […]
2016 was marked by numerous terrorist attacks and concerns over a worsening geopolitical atmosphere. Thus it is important to know, will the military be able to defend and defend itself? What weaponry will be used […]
Lithuania’s commitment to earmark 2 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) to defence in 2018 is an important signal, Republican Senator John McCain of the United States has said in Vilnius. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė signed under the 2017 state budget project which already passed in Seimas. […]
Raimundas Karoblis’ name has so far not been well known in Lithuania. A career diplomat with over 20 years of experience, he himself was surprised by the proposal to become Minister of National Defence. He is inheriting a ministry with both an impressively rising budget and at the same time – the taint of corruption, but the former diplomat tells Delfi TV that in the end he decided to operate on the idea of “If need be, then so be it”. […]
Should Lithuanian politicians decide to introduce general conscription, preparations would take at least four years and require more funding, experts say. […]
The Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LPGU) and the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) coalition’s “Harmonious Lithuanian Cabinet” programme project only dedicated its very last comments to foreign and defence policy – 10 pages of 117. While the new government does not propose any earthshattering changes, some new accents raise eyebrows. […]
Lithuania’s parliament restated its plans to meet the commitment to NATO in terms of raising defence funding and reasserted the importance of strategic partnership with the United States. […]
Reacting to Russian activities in Eastern Ukraine and the constant escalation of military activity in the Baltic Sea region, Lithuania has joined the top 10 of NATO states best funding their defence, reaching the ninth […]
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