Expansion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is not in the interest of the European Union, however, the organization has no legal instruments to halt the project, Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager has said in Vilnius. […]
The European Union’s (EU) Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager has so far refused to comment on the possibilities for European countries to get compensations from Russia’s Gazprom gas concern over past overcharging for gas, saying she did not know when the European Commission would complete the Gazprom anti-monopoly survey on its operations in Central and Eastern Europe. […]
If two years ago someone had said that the Polish Electoral Action in Lithuania – Christian Families Union (LLRA-KŠS) would be lured to participate in forming majorities in both Seimas and the Vilnius municipal council, […]
Margrethe Vestager is meeting with Lithuanian leaders in Vilnius on Tuesday to discuss the fine of almost 28 million euros on Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, or LG) for dismantling a railway stretch to Latvia. […]
This week Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said that unfortunately Molotov still lives and is looking for his Ribbentrop. The tensions caused by an aggressive neighbour, which tests European unity at every opportunity, raises […]
Lithuania’s former President Valdas Adamkus on Tuesday called for convening a meeting of the region’s political leaders on energy issues. […]
After Lithuania received its first shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States on Monday, Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas expects the price of US gas to be reflected in the end user price next year, but Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis thinks that it is too early to say that gas prices for households will go down. […]
The United States seek to undermine Russia‘s influence in the energy sector, therefore, is skeptical about the Nord Stream 2 project, which would make Europe more dependent on the Kremlin, says US congressman Rob Bishop. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday restated support to the new sanctions taken by the United States against Russia. […]
“The stress test of our coalition with the “Farmers” will be in autumn during the formation of the budget. Then we will see how to act,” Social Democrat leader Gintautas Paluckas told LRT.lt when asked […]
An increasing number of nations back a firm stance on Nord Stream 2 as the European Commission seeks a mandate from the EU’s member states in talks on the project, Lithuanian Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas said. […]
Natural gas for residents and all household consumers in Lithuania will go up by 5-8 percent from July after expiry of the 2014 gas discount granted by Gazprom. […]
Russia’s gas giant Gazprom must compensate European gas consumers for losses they suffered due to its non-transparent gas trade practices, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said after meeting with Maros Sefcovic, the European Commission’s Vice-President for Energy Union in Vilnius on Wednesday. […]
On Sunday Gazprom started constructing the “TurkStream” pipeline, which is another piece of the puzzle for Russia to supply gas to Western Europe by bypassing East European countries. Romas Švedas, who is an independent energy […]
Gazprom‘s proposed commitments in the Lithuanian and other Central and Eastern European gas markets do not meet the present-day realities and, in the long term, fail to ensure that the Russian gas giant will not abuse its dominant position and will not restrict competition, the Lithuanian Energy Ministry said on Thursday. […]
Lithuania has joined Poland‘s appeal against the European Commission’s decision to give Russia’s Gazprom more capacity on a branch of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in Germany, with the government saying that Brussels’ move may increase Europe’s dependence on Russian gas and harm Ukraine. […]
Russia’s nuclear energy corporation Rosatom seeks to form a positive image of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant under construction in Belarus by way of drawing the European Commission to its side. Furthermore, the Russian Gazprom concern continues its efforts, via mediators, to preserve the influence on the Lithuanian gas market, the Lithuanian State Security Department said. […]
Lithuania’s intelligence institutions on Monday published the traditional report of national security threats. BNS Lithuania presents the six key threats listed in the document: […]
After the State Security Department (VSD) refused to grant Mindaugas Bastys a permit to work with classified information due to his suspicious links to Russian energy industry companies, Kremlin propagandists and criminals, there have been […]
Copyright © 2024 | MH Magazine WordPress Theme by MH Themes