A delegation headed by Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius left for Paris on Wednesday to open membership negotiations with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that the “black list” of European Union officials prepared by Russia is part of the propaganda war. […]
Lithuania is joining the European Union-led Operation Naval Force in the Mediterranean (EUNAVFOR MED) by posting an officer to the headquarters of the operation in Rome, Italy. The Lithuanian officer began serving in the position of officer on duty at the Combined Operations Centre on 28 May, said the Ministry of National Defence. […]
The EU’s Vice President in charge of the Digital Single Market, Andrus Ansip presented on Thursday his proposals to Washington’s influential Brookings Institute. During a press conference on Friday the pragmatic Mr. Ansip provided some more insights as to how the EU and its 28 membership states faces the complexities of a fast changing internet and how they plan reducing existing regulations and harmonize the EU into one single, large economic block. […]
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. […]
Lithuania’s foreign policy is not without some ambivalence. Vilnius aspires to be a regional leader and set an example to other small countries, Lithuania demands to be treated as a respected full-fledged member of the European Union, NATO and the international community. Its own actions, however, do not always live up to the standard. […]
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”. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė welcomed the participants of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s conference in Vilnius. Grybauskaitė emphasised that only strong, dynamic and united European Union could meet people’s expectations and offset emerging challenges. […]
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”. […]
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. […]
At the EU General Affairs Council meeting on 19 May in Brussels, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius discussed progress in implementing measures to tackle migratory flows in the Mediterranean Sea region adopted at a special meeting of the European Council on 23 April 2015. […]
The European Union‘s (EU) Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas has expressed regret over the current state of relations between Lithuania and Poland. […]
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