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Jeffrey Gedmin: Unless Europe puts values above commerce, we risk another Iron Curtain

November 22, 2014 Monika Garbaciauskaite 0

Unless the EU takes a tough stand on Russia‘s foreign policies, there will re-emerge deep divisions in the continent between a free Europe and a less free Europe, says Jeffrey Gedmin, president of the Legatum Institute in London and former president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. […]

Klaipeda LNG terminal to supply Finnish-Estonian terminal with gas – Lithuanian PM

November 21, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that he welcomes an agreement between Estonia and Finland to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, adding that Lithuania’s LNG terminal in Klaipėda will be able to supply the future-to-be Finnish-Estonian facility with gas. […]

Large companies in Baltics expect increase in turnover next year

November 16, 2014 ELTA EN 0

More than half (53 percent) of the large companies in the Baltic states expect that their turnover will increase in the coming 12 months, according to a survey conducted by Latvia‘s SEB banka. […]

Estonia’s Moppel appointed council chairman of Rail Baltica company

November 15, 2014 ELTA EN 0

The three Baltic countries’ joint venture, the joint-stock company RB Rail, has been registered with the Register of Enterprises of Latvia, the Transport Ministry informed LETA. […]

Baltic and Nordic defence ministers discuss joint capacities

November 12, 2014 BNS 0

Lithuania’s Defense Minister Juozas Olekas is visiting Norway on Wednesday to meet with his Nordic and Baltic colleagues for a discussion of initiative to step up the Nordic and Baltic anti-crisis capacities. […]

Opinion: Will the Baltic states rise to the challenges to their own security?

November 11, 2014 Dr. Stasys Backaitis 0

Russia’s attacks on Georgia and Ukraine in the last decade have brought to the forefront sharp diversities of opinion within the EU, showing that many member countries have no appetite for confrontation with Russia. […]

Chief of Defence of Lithuania Major General Jonas Vytautas Žukas

Baltic battalion to join NATO rapid response force in 2016

November 9, 2014 BNS 0

The chiefs of defence of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have agreed to send a joint battalion of around 1,000 troops for standby to join NATO’s rapid response force in 2016. […]

Prime Minister of Finland Alexander Stubb

Northern Future Forum discusses innovative business training and Britain’s drive to reform EU

November 9, 2014 Andrei Popov 0

Northern Future Forum (NFF) took place on 6 and 7 November in Helsinki. The Prime Minister of Finland, Alexander Stubb, had invited the prime ministers of Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Sweden and the United Kingdom to discuss educational competitiveness, and promote innovative business activities. […]

Estonia to open consulate in Kaunas

November 7, 2014 BNS 0

Estonia plans to establish its honorary consulate in Lithuania’s second-largest city of Kaunas. The plans were announced by Estonian Ambassador to Lithuania Toomas Kukkdueing during his recent visit to the city, Kaunas Municipality said on Friday. […]

Lithuanian economy to grow fastest in Baltics in 2014-2015

November 7, 2014 Baltic Business News 0

According to the latest EU economic growth report of the European Commission, Lithuania will see the fastest growth in the Baltics in 2014 and 2015. […]

Lithuania ranked 42nd in world prosperity index

November 3, 2014 ELTA EN 0

Norway is the most prosperous country, according to the 2014 Legatum Prosperity Index, published on Monday by the British research centre Legatum Institute, while Lithuania is number 42 among 142 ranked nations. […]

Railway advances reveal strategic interests in the Baltics

November 3, 2014 Eugene Chausovsky 0

Stratfor analyst Eugene Chausovsky reflects on the Baltic states’ recent announcement of a joint venture company for Rail Baltica and examines the project’s regional context and implications. […]

Tallinn Airport among best airports in Europe

November 2, 2014 Baltic Business News 0

Tallinn Airport is among the best airports in Europe, based on the overall airport experience determined by a travellers survey. […]

Lithuania’s grain processor Malsena acquiring Estonia’s Balti Veski

October 30, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

Malsena, major Lithuanian grain processor, has entered into agreement to acquire Balti Veski, one of the most popular food manufacturers and major players in Estonian grain products market. […]

Unsolved dilemma of Orlen Lietuva (Mažeikių Nafta)

October 29, 2014 Agnia Grigas 0

The launch of Lithuania’s new LNG Terminal Independence in Klaipėda is cause for celebration as a victory over Russian gas dominance. as well as neighbouring Latvia and Estonia. However, another Lithuanian energy sector dilemma remains unresolved despite efforts of the European Commission and Vilnius and Warsaw – the Russian eight year long oil ‘embargo’ against the Lithuanian oil refinery Orlen Lietuva (Mažeikių Nafta). […]

Baltic countries set up joint company for Rail Baltica

October 28, 2014 BNS 0

After several years of negotiations, the three Baltic countries on Tuesday established a joint venture that will carry out the European-standard gauge railway project Rail Baltica. […]

Opinion: What do Russian probes in the Baltic portend?

October 28, 2014 Stephen Blank 0

Earlier this month (October 2014), Scandinavian, and especially Swedish, media have focused on Sweden’s apparently abortive efforts to locate what was allegedly a disabled Russian reconnaissance submarine off its shores near Stockholm. But beyond the glaring evidence of the degradation of Swedish military capabilities — a condition it shares with most if not all of Europe — there is a larger story here. […]

Lithuanian president plans visits to Berlin, Tallinn and Brussels

October 28, 2014 BNS 0

Berlin, Tallinn and Brussels are on Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s list of planned official visits. […]

Andrey Piontkovsky: Putin plans to play poker, not chess

October 28, 2014 www.lrt.lt 0

Russian president Vladimir Putin intends to blackmail the West with a nuclear weapon. So says Russian policy expert Andrey Piontkovsky. He reasons that if the “little green men” and Russian troops turn up in Estonia, for example, Vladimir Putin would warn NATO not to intervene because that would be a Russian World affair and he’d threaten to use nuclear weapons if the Alliance took military action against him. […]

Estonian PM cancels visit to Lithuania due to cabinet crisis

October 27, 2014 ELTA EN 0

Due to political tensions that emerged in the Estonian government last week, chairman of the Reform Party, Prime Minister Taavi Roivas cancelled his visit to Lithuania and Sweden that was to take place on Monday; Foreign Trade and Entrepreneurship Minister Anne Sulling will go to the visit instead of him, Postimees Online reports. […]