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Nordic countries pledge closer military cooperation in face of Russian aggression

April 10, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland have announced a joint declaration on Friday, pledging to step up military cooperation among themselves and the Baltic states, AFP reports. […]

Finnish investors attracted to Baltic states by cost competitiveness

February 21, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania is not far behind Estonia in direct investments from Finland with low wage levels, small taxes and a hungry workforce, Invest Lithuania reports. […]

Baltics to host Saber Strike 2015 military exercises

February 14, 2015 BNS EN 0

Troops from nine NATO countries took part in the main planning conference of the Saber Strike 2015 multinational exercises at the General Adolfas Ramanauskas Warfare Training Centre in Nemenčine on February 10-13. […]

Lithuania opens honorary consulate in Finland

February 6, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania opened a honorary consulate in Kuopio, a city in eastern Finland. It will be headed by Esa Karvinen, the director general of Savo education consortium, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said. […]

Finland invited to become shareholder in Rail Baltica joint venture

January 30, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Latvia‘s Transport Minister Anrijs Matiss (Unity) has invited Finland to take active part in implementation of the standard-gauge railroad Rail Baltica project and in the work of the Rail Baltica joint venture, noting the project’s importance for the entire Nordic-Baltic region, LETA learned from the Transport Ministry. […]

KTU Executive School: Tailor-made competences for business

January 25, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Every businessperson in his of her life has encountered a situation when they need to upgrade their competence package. However, usually there is no time for proper studies, and the quality of available lectures by individual speakers is often compromised. Lauri Koponen, Head of KTU Executive School says that business breakfast, popular in Scandinavian countries, is a good solution for this problem. […]

Grybauskaitė congratulates Finland on national day

December 8, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

On 6 December, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to President Sauli Niinisto of the Republic of Finland on the occasion of the country’s national holiday – Independence Day, the presidential press service said. […]

Estonians and Finns must decide on LNG terminal fast, EC vice-president says

December 6, 2014 ELTA EN 0

European Commission Vice-President of the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip said on Friday at a conference in Tallinn that Estonia and Finland have to move forward fast with the LNG terminal project, because there is prevailing investment drought in Europe and no one is going to wait until Estonia and Finland finish deliberating different solutions, Aripaev Online reports. […]

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. […]

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. […]

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. […]

The European Commission recommends Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland to start preparing for an emergency situation immediately since if Russian gas taps were turned off, Estonia, for example, would run out of gas in 4-5 days, Eesti Paevaleht writes. […]

EU says no to joint Estonian-Finnish LNG terminal project

October 2, 2014 Baltic Business News 0

EU has rejected the proposal to finance the development of joint LNG terminal projects proposed by the Estonian company Alexela Energia and Finland‘s Gasum Oy, writes Eesti Päevaleht. […]