Foreign policy

  • Foreign affairs

Strengthening Azerbaijan-Lithuania Relations: Bilateral Cooperation, Shared Goals, and Strategic Significance

Azerbaijan has been gaining growing attention as an attractive European partner, and Lithuania is one of the European countries that…

2 years ago
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Former presidential adviser says Lithuania’s NATO membership is 2nd-rate. They agreed behind our backs

Albinas Januška, a signatory of the Act of Independence, diplomat and former advisor to the President, is talking and thinking…

2 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Landsbergis announces a new European security architecture: the Baltic States and Poland will join

Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said in Riga, where the heads of diplomacy of the three Baltic States and Poland were…

2 years ago
  • Central/Eastern Europe

The lonely people of Belarus on the margins of the EU-Lithuania political agenda

Two years after the fraudulent Belarusian presidential elections, the Belarusian constitution was changed on the initiative of Alexander Lukashenko, journalists…

2 years ago
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A talk on “censorship of criticism” on foreign policy

Some opposition members note that they have recently been subjected to "censorship of criticism and political debate", where their harsh…

2 years ago
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Russia’s influence behind the scenes in the European Union: Lithuania and pressure on transit

The European Commission (EC) is reconsidering the issue of transit to Kaliningrad because Russia has managed to "entangle" Lithuania behind…

2 years ago
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A. Kubilius. On Lithuania’s foreign policy strategy up to 2030

Instead of an introduction This text aims to bring together in a more conceptual form personal thoughts, initiatives and projects…

3 years ago
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Landsbergis to business – not everyone can provide evidence that they have suffered because of China

Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis says that the government is not changing its position towards China and is confident that intensified…

3 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

The country has never seen such inconsistency before

Lithuania may be considering changing the name of the Taiwanese mission in Chinese to the Taiwanese Mission, the Reuters news…

3 years ago
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Nausėda embarks on a new crusade, but slips while trying to get Landsbergis out of office

After failing to hear of Gabrielius Landsbergis' resignation over the fertiliser transit scandal, President Gitanas Nausėda continues to scramble the…

3 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Vytautas Sinica. The dead-end of a “values-based” foreign policy

The news that Lithuania would continue to receive Belarussian exports of potassium fertiliser, after actively campaigning for sanctions against the…

3 years ago
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The West is surprised by Lithuania’s struggle with China: doing what others dare not

Few countries dare to challenge China the way Lithuania has done. Foreign media point out that Lithuanians, unlike much of…

3 years ago
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China is annoyed by Lithuania’s ties with Taiwan – calls Lithuania bully

China is very angry with Lithuania's decision to open a Taiwanese representative office in Vilnius. The Chinese embassy also held…

3 years ago
  • Cyber security

Januška on the cyber-attack against the URM: a vastly harmful scandal draws near

The Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (URM) announced on Wednesday that it had observed an attempt to perform an information-cyber-attack.…

3 years ago
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Januška counts Nausėda’s mistakes: “An example of poor politics”

Lithuania cannot act effectively on its own in foreign affairs, so it must always seek allies. This could be said…

3 years ago
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President of Lithuania: Forgetting is not an option

It is much easier to deny the past than to rectify it, wrote Titus Livius. The past can also be…

3 years ago
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Laurinkus. Nausėda doesn’t need to “find his place”, he is exactly where he needs to be

The discussion Lithuanian Foreign Policy Outlook, where President G. Nausėda answered questions presented by the director of the Eastern Europe…

4 years ago
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A change in perception of Lithuanian-Polish relations at the May 3 Constitution commemoration

While watching the 230 anniversary of the May 3 Constitution at the Lithuanian and Polish parliaments, it was indeed uncomfortable…

4 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Tension between Russia and the West: Moscow’s dangerous demonstrations of force and preposterous urging

The exchange of diplomatic slaps between Russia and the West has reached unprecedented levels since the Skripal poisoning in the…

4 years ago
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Laurinkus. In the shadow of Moscow and Zapad, Lithuanians taken hostage by Lukashenko and his circle

As a regular citizen and of importance only to myself, I would like to extend my Easter wishes to the…

4 years ago