Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, will pay an official visit to Lithuania on 2 July. […]
Lithuania hopes that the European Union‘s refugee resettlement scheme will be voluntary and will not be restricted to only migrants coming from the south. […]
Georgia is disappointed with the stalling visa-free talks with the European Union (EU); however, it is fully capable of achieving the objective before the end of this year, says Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. […]
Ambassadors do not pop up out of the blue and, for Marius Janukonis, Lithuania’s new Ambassador to Ukraine, the journey has been, he says, “a natural course of the diplomatic career”. But landing a diplomatic post in a country like Ukraine is obviously “a big challenge”, he agrees. […]
The European Parliament opened discussions about a report on EU-Russia relations, drafted by Lithuanian MEP Gabrielius Landsbergis, on Tuesday. Some MEPs called for separating the Russian society and the country’s government while others accused Europe of expansionism. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė made her annual State of the Nation address at the Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, on Thursday. In her speech, the president mostly focused on national defence, security challenges stemming from Russia‘s aggressive policies, as well as emigration of working-age population. Grybauskaitė also stressed the need to work more on addressing social issues, particularly in childcare institutions. […]
Despite the frantic attempts by some of the EU leaders to give a rosy tint to the otherwise murky picture of the EU Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, political analysts from Lithuania, Estonia and Ukraine, approached by the Lithuania Tribune, unanimously agree the EU partners with membership aspirations have ended up in a limbo after the high-profile meeting. The uncertainty cannot last forever, the analysts agree, but their predictions for how it may unfold differ. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Marshal of the Polish Senate Bogdan Borusewicz, Chairman of Ukraine‘s Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Groysman, and Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė, who are participating in the sixth session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine. The meeting focused on the security situation in the region, the situation in Ukraine, and enhanced interparliamentary cooperation between the three countries, said the presidential press service. […]
The European Union launched its Eastern Partnership programme in 2009, soon after Russia‘s 2008 war on Georgia. It was proposed by Poland and Sweden, with enthusiastic support from Lithuania. Russia has ever since been blaming the programme for trying to undermine its interests in the countries Moscow refers to as the “near abroad”. […]
The European Union launched its Eastern Partnership programme in 2009, soon after Russia‘s 2008 war on Georgia. It was proposed by Poland and Sweden, with enthusiastic support from Lithuania. Russia has ever since been blaming the programme for trying to undermine its interests in the countries Moscow refers to as the “near abroad”. […]
The European Union‘s Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas has called for an official Russian position on the public threats made on television by Duma member Vladimir Zhirinovsky “to redeem Vilnius and Klaipėda”. […]
Lithuania had expected more from last week’s EU Eastern Partnership summit, says Benediktas Juodka, chairman of the Lithuanian Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs. […]
Some countries would like to see the European Union as “a tea club” that does not make any decisions, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Friday. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is attending the European Union‘s (EU) Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, says that the promises made to Eastern partners are sufficient, although the West has not committed itself to accepting them into the EU in the future. […]
Free movement of persons is a fundamental value, Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė stated in Riga on Friday, commenting on the United Kingdom‘s efforts to renegotiate the immigration rules with the European Union (EU). […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that a lot has been achieved since the last summit of the European Union‘s (EU) Eastern Partnership that took place in Vilnius 18 months ago, stressing that the Eastern Partnership programme is a contribution to European security. […]
British Prime Minister David Cameron will start face-to-face discussions at the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga on Friday with European partners on renegotiating Britain’s position in the European Union (EU) ahead of an in-out referendum by 2017. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that at the European Union‘s (EU) Eastern Partnership Summit the EU will once again assure its commitment to cooperate with countries of Eastern Europe. However, the extent of cooperation will depend on the resolve of each country. […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has indicated that former Soviet states that are part of the European Union‘s Eastern Partnership programme should not expect any promises of full membership. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday and Friday is attending the EU Eastern Partnership summit in Riga. The summit will review the results of the Eastern Partnership programme achieved after the Vilnius summit held at the end of 2013 and will outline guidelines for further cooperation and development of the programme, said the presidential press service. […]
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