Eastern Europe

  • Foreign affairs

Chinese and Central-Eastern European ministers meeting in Riga

Baltic transport ministers are meeting their Chinese counterparts for the first time in Riga to discuss initiatives strengthening transport links…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Opinion

Tackling Lithuania’s productivity problem

Productivity in Lithuania compared to Western European economies remains abysmally low. One of the ways to approach the problem could…

9 years ago
  • Opinion

Ukraine’s indispensable economic reforms

Economic reform is central for today’s Ukraine. The capacity of the Ukrainian nation—leadership and population together—to deliver a modern and…

9 years ago
  • Global LT
  • Opinion
  • Society

The realization your grandfather may have murdered thousands of Jews

"There is always someone in a family who pushes against silence," says Rita Gabis, in whose new book Lithuania’s Holocaust…

9 years ago
  • Defence

NATO considering sending extra 4,000 troops to Baltic States – US Defense Secretary

NATO is considering establishing a new rotational ground force in the Baltic States and Poland to deter possible Russian aggression,…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE

Germany ‘will send more troops to Lithuania to deter Russia’

Germany is to send more troops to Lithuania, the influential German news magazine Der Spiegel reports.“Due to requests from Eastern…

9 years ago
  • Opinion

It’s not just about ‘Pride’ for Lithuania’s LGBT community

This June, Vilnius is hosting Baltic Pride for the third time, an annual LGBT event that rotates among the three…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE

Chinese entrepreneurs look for opportunities at Vilnius University

Entrepreneurs from China's Shenzhen city visited Vilnius University on Tuesday in search for new business opportunities in Lithuania.The Chinese entrepreneurs…

9 years ago
  • Energy
  • Opinion

Can Nord Stream 2 be stopped?

Nord Stream 2, the controversial Russian-German pipeline project, is generating fierce opposition in Central and Eastern Europe as well as…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Opinion

Germany, Lithuania on opposite sides of NATO divide on Russia

The NATO-Russia Council meeting last week did not seem to bring any tangible results, but it was preceded by the…

9 years ago
  • Economy
  • European Union

Lithuania to give ‘yellow card’ to EC over truck drivers’ wages

Lithuania will join effort with other Central and Eastern EU states to block the Brussels initiative of equalling wages for…

9 years ago
  • Defence

No new NATO bases in Eastern Europe – US and German officials

The United States and Germany say that NATO will not build any new bases in countries like Poland. [...]

9 years ago
  • European Union
  • Opinion

Dutch unease: Why the Netherlands turned away from Ukraine

The Dutch didn’t reject the EU’s Association Agreement with Ukraine because they are sympathetic to Russia. They rejected it because…

9 years ago
  • Uncategorized

The impact of Panama Papers in Eastern Europe – and rest of the world

On April 3, the Panama Papers hit media outlets around the world, and the fallout was swift. [...]

9 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: How the Kremlin infiltrated an EU referendum in the Netherlands

The student leaders of 1968 could probably not have imagined how their democratic ideas would be high-jacked by a combination…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Opinion

Russia: how to manage its move from aggressor to European partner

Lithuania security analysts say that views of Russia in the West have been transformed over recent months by international events…

9 years ago
  • Opinion

In Belarus, a political transformation takes shape

For two decades Belarus has clung to the past. Led by President Aleksandr Lukashenko since 1994, the country's political system…

9 years ago
  • CORPORATE

US moving from talk to action – Lithuanian military expert

The United States decision to deploy an additional armoured brigade to Eastern Europe illustrates the change in US policy in…

9 years ago
  • Defence

US to deploy new armoured brigade to Eastern Europe

The United States will increase its military presence in Eastern Europe by deploying an additional armoured brigade in the area…

9 years ago
  • European Union

West must separate issue of counter-terrorism and Eastern aggression when it comes to Russia – analysts

In the eyes of much of the West, Russia's image has changed from that of an aggressor to that of…

9 years ago