European Union foreign ministers threatened Russia with harsher sanctions over Ukraine on Tuesday, with some saying diplomacy was no longer enough to force Moscow to de-escalate the crisis after the downing of a Malaysia Airlines flight last week. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, who arrived for a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels on Tuesday, voiced a cautious position on economic sanctions against Russia, but called for imposing movement restrictions for officials close to the Kremlin and stopping sales of weaponry to Russia. […]
At the informal meeting of the EU Competitiveness Council in Italy, Lithuania’s Minister of Economy Evaldas Gustas has proposed to strengthen the European working group on competitiveness and growth. […]
On 1 January this year, Latvians switched from lats and santimus, that had been the national currency for the last 20 years, to euro banknotes and cents. DELFI interviewed a couple of traders in a local market at Ventspils and asked how they were getting used to the new currency. […]
Talks have begun between Russia and the pro-EU former Soviet states of Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia. The sides are assessing how recently signed free trade deals with the European Union will impact the countries’ trade relations with Russia. The effect will be muted for now, but the agreements could have a larger impact in the future if each country adopts them fully. Full implementation will be challenging because of Russia’s influence and political instability in the three nations.
Analysis […]
Citizens of Russia and other third countries will be able to get short-term visas to the Schengen zone on the border of the area, including Lithuania, starting next year, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports. […]
The European Union‘s (EU) delay in applying major sanctions against the environment of Russia‘s President Vladimir Putin is “an invitation for Putin to be even more aggressive,” says Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
On Thursday the European Parliament approved the composition of EP delegations to parliaments in non-EU countries. […]
European Union leaders failed to agree at a summit on Wednesday (July 16) on sharing out a package of top jobs in the 28-nation bloc, including a new foreign policy chief, and postponed the decision until late August. […]
European Union leaders failed to agree at a summit on Wednesday on sharing out a package of top jobs in the 28-nation bloc, including a new foreign policy chief, and postponed the decision until late August. […]
There’s no basis to speak about a pause in the EU enlargement process, despite recent statements of the new European Commission president, says European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighborhood Policy Stefan Fule. […]
The European Union (EU) leaders have not been able to agree on top political appointments during the European Council meeting, according to Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma (Unity). […]
The new tougher sanctions over the ongoing crisis in Ukraine, agreed by the European Council late on Wednesday night, are still not sufficient, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
DELFI observer Ramūnas Bogdanas interviews former foreign minister of Iceland Jon Baldvin Hannibalsson who was the strongest supporter of Lithuania’s independence in 1990-91 among all Western politicians. He closely continues to monitor the development of Lithuania. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is of the opinion that the head of foreign diplomacy of the European Union should be at least neutral and able to coordinate positions on separate issues. […]
“The Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) should make an impact on the EU’s foreign policy. It is the search for a new momentum in EU foreign policy that is one of the key priorities of the Italian Presidency. I am sure that this task will not pose a problem to Italy as one of the founding members of the Community that presides over the Council of the EU for the twelfth time,” said Gediminas Kirkilas, Deputy Speaker of the Seimas and Chair of the Committee on European Affairs, according to the press service of the Seimas. […]
On 1 January 2014, the population of the European Union was estimated to stand at 507.4 million, compared with 505.7 million one year before. The population growth is due to a natural increase of 80,000 and a net migration of 700,000, while the remainder can be explained by statistical adjustments, according to EU statistics office Eurostat. […]
More than two thirds of people in Lithuania support the country’s membership in the European Union, a survey for the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs shows. […]
The chief executive officer of Lithuania’s Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP), which is carrying out multi-billion-litas closure projects, says that donors are satisfied with the current pace of work and progress achieved and that the decommissioning process is now under control, following several years of delays. […]
Deputy Parliament Speaker Algirdas Sysas of the Social Democratic Party agrees with the idea that foreigners who permanently reside in Lithuania should be allowed to become members of political parties. […]
Copyright © 2024 | MH Magazine WordPress Theme by MH Themes