Bringing Georgia closer to European but also Atlantic institutional structures continued to be one of Lithuania’s most important foreign policy objectives this year. Despite Russia’s creeping occupation efforts over the summer and the ramping up of its massive anti-Western propaganda machine, the small South Caucasus country is still firmly resolved to follow the Euro-Atlantic course. […]
During the 21st Baltic Council at the Seimas (Parliament) on 20 November, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius underlined the need to further strengthen security in the region and stressed the importance of ensuring energy independence, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
On Wednesday, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius participated in the Nordic-Baltic prime ministers’ meeting (Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), held in Reykjavik, capital of Iceland, the prime minister’s press service reports. […]
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius left for a working visit to Iceland to participate in a meeting of the prime ministers of the Nordic and Baltic countries (NB8) in Reykjavik on Wednesday, the prime minister’s press service said. […]
On 25-26 October, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius visited Berlin, where he discussed bilateral relations between Lithuania and Germany, the Eastern Partnership, and assistance to Ukraine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
Proudly transitioning from an aid receiver to an affluent Western society, Lithuania has yet to live up to its commitments of financial help to the world’s poorest. […]
Conventional wisdom dictates vision before planning. It seems neither are present in the cautious, yet steady Western reset with Belarus, whose authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko recently secured his fifth term in elections widely considered to be flawed, argues Marius Laurinavičius, fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). […]
The recent presidential election in Belarus secured presidency for Alexander Lukashenko for the fifth term. Prior to the vote, the Belarusian regime released political prisoners, which the European Union took as a gesture of good will and is talking about suspending sanctions against Lukashenko and his officials. However, such optimism about change in Belarus is misguided, says political scientist Vytis Jurkonis of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University. […]
On 24 September Deputy Minister Marijus Velička underscored Lithuania’s intent to strengthen military cooperation with Sweden and other Nordic countries in a range of areas at a meeting with State Secretary Jan Salestrand of Swedish Ministry of Defence at the Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania. “Nordic-Baltic cooperation is a crucial factor of ensuring security in the region,” the deputy minister of national defence said. […]
On Monday, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met with Federica Mogherini, European Commission Vice-President, European Union‘s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, to discuss the refugee crisis and ways to strengthen strategic communications, as well as other matters of international importance, the press service of the Government said. […]
High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini will pay her first official visit to Lithuania on Monday. […]
The dangerous actions by Russia and Vladimir Putin pose the greatest challenge to security and democracy since WWII. This applies not only to the countries within Eurasia, but to our post-war vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace. While not necessarily a return to the Cold War, the current situation nevertheless has brought a clear competition of ideologies to the forefront: democracies founded on free elections, accountable governance and rule of law versus authoritarian ideals of “managed democracy.” […]
The joint meeting of the Latvian and Lithuanian governments in Lithuania’s Rokiškis town on Friday offers excellent opportunity to further consolidate both countries’ relations, Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma (Unity) said before the meeting. […]
Georgia’s first “freedom generation” will soon lead the country, economically and politically. This generation has never known anything but a Western oriented Georgia. By implementing a series of reforms associated with the projects of European and Euro-Atlantic integration, the independence generation transformed Georgia to a degree once thought unthinkable. […]
At the international conference in Tbilisi on 7 September, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius spoke about Europe’s current geopolitical situation, Lithuania’s MFA reports. […]
Tuesday, September 1, 2015, bilateral discussion and consultation on Eastern European partnership between Lithuanian and Israeli experts will be held in Vilnius, according to a press release by the Embassy of Israel. […]
We meet with Ambassador Žygimantas Pavilionis on a quiet Sunday morning in the Lithuanian Embassy in Washington, D.C., for the last interview before he leaves the USA and returns to Lithuania. […]
The leader of Lithuania’s conservatives MEP Gabrielius Landsbergis has suggested during a visit in Kiev that Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia should set up a joint battalion. […]
The fourth Eastern Partnership Summit was held in Riga on 21-22 May 2015. The joint Declaration of the Riga Summit did not reaffirm either the European perspective of the Eastern European Partnership countries consistently demonstrating the best performance or the political support to Georgia and Ukraine in visa liberalization that Tbilisi and Kiev were looking forward to. Quite the opposite, compared to the Vilnius Summit document adopted two years ago, the tone and ambition of the Riga Summit declaration seemed rather weakened. […]
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