Counter-terrorism efforts and the migration crisis will reduce the international community’s attention on the security situation in Eastern Europe and will have a negative effect upon Lithuania, according to Lithuanian intelligence assessments. […]
NATO will not renounce additional security measures in Eastern Europe in exchange for Russia’s potential assistance in fighting terrorism, a top NATO official said in Vilnius on Thursday. […]
Lithuania‘s capital has a higher quality of life than other Baltic State capitals Riga and Talinn, and is ranked as the fourth best city in Central and Eastern Europe to live in, according to new research conducted by Mercer. […]
European Union countries must look for compromise and help the British government convince the British people to stay in the Union, but not at the price of discrimination against EU citizens, says Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė ahead of important talks in Brussels. […]
The world is not facing a new Cold War, it is getting “very hot”, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said at the Munich Security Forum on Saturday, responding to Russia‘s statements. […]
One cannot choose one’s neighbours. We have been assigned ours by history and geography. Lithuania has not been dealt a good hand. Although historic threats from Germany have retreated, Russia remains a dangerous neighbour. Lithuania will be vulnerable until Russia undergoes a radical transformation. […]
Defence ministers of NATO countries on Wednesday endorsed plans to step up the Alliance’s military presence in Eastern Europe in response to Russia‘s actions, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas said. […]
A recent announcement from Washington that the United States is giving a four-fold boost to its military spending in Europe has sent waves of joy through Lithuania, but it appears that most of the US military presence will be concentrated in Western Europe, which has the necessary infrastructure already in place to support American forces, rather than Eastern Europe. […]
A major British army exercise to practice an Iraq invasion-scale operation with US forces in Jordan is in preparation for a possible confrontation with Russia in Eastern Europe. […]
Lithuania picked up five major awards at this year’s Central and Eastern Europe Shared Services and Outsourcing Awards in Warsaw and came out on top overall for the second year running. […]
As the presidential race in the United States picks up pace, political analyst Simonas Klimanskis looks at which of the front-runners for the Democratic and Republican parties’ nominations would pursue foreign policies that are in the best interests of the Baltic States and Eastern Europe. […]
US President Barack Obama is planning to substantially increase the deployment of heavy weapons and armoured vehicles in Lithuania and the Baltic States, and all along NATO’s eastern flank, to send a signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, writes the New York Times. […]
Draft proposals by European Council president Donald Tusk to keep Britain in the European Union include proposals for an ‘emergency brake’ that would allow countries to curb in-work benefits to migrants for up to four years that could affect the many Lithuanian emigrants living and working in the UK, or planning to move to the UK. […]
Ping pong of historical references pepper European Parliament debate on Poland reforms and European Commission investigation […]
In a new memoir, former Swedish diplomat Bo J. Theutenberg alleges that Soviet and Eastern European intelligence infiltration of Swedish post-war society was far more extensive than previously understood and that Sweden’s Prime Minister Olof Palme may have been a key target. He also warns about the continuing and serious ramifications for the current Swedish-Russian political relationship. […]
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