Greece could learn from Lithuania how to implement reforms during the crisis instead of focusing on getting external support, Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius said on Friday as he arrived at the Eurogroup’s meeting in Riga. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that the Lithuanian government is ready to help the EU’s efforts in solving illegal migration from Africa crisis and contribute to search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean with equipment and human resources. As regards allowing refugees from Africa to resettle in Lithuania, however, it may be discussed at a later time, according to him. […]
Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves has compared compared the situation in Russia to “The Godfather” film and called Russian regime authoritarian capitalism, Postimees Online reports. […]
The Kremlin expects impartial treatment for Gazprom under the antimonopoly probe and reaching a compromise with the European Commission, Dmitry Peskov, Press Secretary of the Russian President, said on Wednesday. […]
The case against alleged abuse of dominance by Russia’s gas giant Gazprom is not political, the European Union’s Commissioner for Competition Policy has said. […]
Amidst the European Union‘s (EU) efforts to solve the immigration crisis, the Lithuanian government is considering the possibility to assign a helicopter and a crew of the State Border Guard Service for rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea, the prime minister’s spokeswoman said on Wednesday. […]
Gazprom might have charged unfair gas prices and abused dominance, the European Commission (EC) has said after completing a probe into possible abuse of monopoly power by the Russian gas giant in some Central and Eastern European countries. […]
Lithuania is ready to step up its involvement in migrant rescue missions and provide humanitarian aid as the European Unions mulls ways to deal with the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean Sea, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
Lithuania will look for ways to contribute to the EU and the international community’s efforts to resolve the refugee problem, the country’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said on Monday in Luxembourg during a Foreign Affairs Council meeting. […]
According to Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, in January-February 2015, Lithuania’s intra-EU exports of goods stood at EUR 2.1 billion, up 2 percent compared with January-February 2014. Extra-EU exports of goods stood at 1.2 billion, down 19 percent compared with January-February 2014. […]
In the last quarter of 2014, Lithuania saw the second largest decrease in housing prices in the European Union (EU) – it amounted to -4.3 percent, Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU, reports. […]
Lithuania’s Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius does not expect any fast-track solutions to be found in negotiations between the European Union (EU) and Athens on Greece’s financing, which would help the country avoid a debt default. […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Linas Linkevičius, says that the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the only organisation able to at least partially observe the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Therefore the OSCE must be granted access to hotspots of the most intense fighting. […]
The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is the instrument through which the European Union (EU) aims to create bonds between its Member States and the countries at the boundaries of the EU and thus secure the stability of the European borders. The EU stipulates Association Agreements offering financial support and other advantages in exchange for a commitment to implement reforms. There are two action plans within the ENP: the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and the Eastern Partnership (EaP). […]
Lithuania made international headlines last week when its Radio and Television Commission decided to institute a blanket ban on all programmes of a Russian TV channel. The channel in question, RTR Planeta, is registered in Sweden, but its content is entirely Russian-produced. The Commission had previously suspended broadcasts of individual programmes, saying they violated Lithuanian laws, but RTR Planeta would not stop. […]
Scaremongering is bad, but so is the wishful thinking which has fuelled the West’s approach to Russia for decades. So it is worth pondering what a world would look like in which we lose, and Vladimir Putin gets what he wants. […]
The prime ministers of Lithuania and Latvia on Friday criticized Greek PM Alexis Tsipras‘ visit to Moscow where he spoke against the European Union‘s (EU) sanctions for Russia. […]
Greece, which organized a top-level visit to Russia, must meet its commitments to Western organizations in order to secure solidarity from the European Union (EU) on financial support, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says. […]
The European Union‘s (EU) Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas says that supplying arms to Ukraine would be a risky step, given the possible response on the Russian part. […]
Andreas Umland, German political scientist and senior research fellow at Kiev-based Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation, speaks about Russian domestic politics, the “Ukraine crisis” and what the European Union can do about it. […]
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