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Baltic PMs ask Polish counterpart and EC president to find solution for GIPL financing

April 17, 2015 BNS 0

Prime ministers of three Baltic countries have asked the European Commission president and the Polish government leader to find a solution for the financing of GIPL, the Gas Interconnection Poland-Lithuania project. […]

NATO to hold major military exercise in Baltic air space

April 17, 2015 ELTA EN 0

On April 21 and 22, NATO command base in Ramstein, in collaboration with the Latvian National Armed Forces, will organize military air exercises for the twentieth time in the Baltic air space, the Latvian Defence Ministry informed LETA. […]

Seimas deputy speaker wants Poland back in NPP project

April 17, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Seimas Deputy Speaker Gediminas Kirkilas wants to include Poland in the planned construction of Visaginas nuclear power plant (NPP). […]

Are the Baltic states at risk of Russian aggression?

April 16, 2015 Agnia Grigas 0

As tensions are brewing between Russia and the West, the three tiny states on the coast of the Baltic Sea – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – seem to be at the epicentre of this imminent showdown. […]

Prime Minister: Lithuania doesn’t consider building new nuclear plant without Baltic partners

April 15, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania is not considering building a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas on its own, without Latvia and Estonia, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Wednesday. […]

Lithuanian government rumoured to consider building nuclear plant without Latvia and Estonia

April 15, 2015 BNS 0

Although the three Baltic countries continue official discussions about possibilities to build a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas together, the Lithuanian authorities have started to consider chances to develop the project with just one partner – the supplier of technology, Japan’s Hitachi. […]

Lithuanian PM suggests Baltic states could buy weaponry together

April 11, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said after meeting with his Baltic counterparts on Friday that the three Baltic states should consider joint acquisition of weaponry as part of defence cooperation. […]

Latvia and Estonia rule out supplying weapons to Ukraine

April 10, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Heads of Latvian and Estonian governments say their support to Ukraine will be limited to humanitarian and expertise assistance and, therefore, they will not send lethal weapons to Ukraine in the nearest future. […]

Estonia and Latvia still waiting for profitability assessment of Lithuanian NPP

April 10, 2015 ELTA EN 0

The prime ministers of Latvia and Estonia, who are on a visit to Lithuania on Friday, have emphasised that their countries will participate in Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) project if it generates a return on investment. […]

Latvia becomes major country of origin for tobacco smuggling into Lithuania

April 10, 2015 BNS 0

Continued flows of cigarettes smuggling into Lithuania have highlighted a new tendency – increasing amounts of tobacco enter the country from the European Union’s (EU) member-state Latvia rather than the Russian Kaliningrad region or Belarus, as the case was before, the Lietuvos Žinios daily said. […]

Baltic PMs meeting in Vilnius to discuss security and energy

April 10, 2015 BNS 0

Prime ministers of the three Baltic states are holding an informal meeting in Vilnius on Friday on the situation in Ukraine and joint energy and transport projects. […]

Google, Swedbank and Maxima among most popular brands in Baltics

April 9, 2015 ELTA EN 0

The most popular brand in the Baltic states is the on-line search engine Google, according to a research project carried by TNS Emor. […]

Lithuanian-owned Maxima largest employer in Latvia

April 8, 2015 ELTA EN 0

The largest employer in Latvia last year was supermarket chain Maxima Latvija, which employed approximately 9,150 people, according to information from the State Revenue Service. […]

Laimdota Straujuma, Algirdas Butkevičius

Baltic PMs to meet in Vilnius to discuss security and energy

April 8, 2015 ELTA EN 0

In order to discuss matters related to security, energy and transportation, the prime ministers of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia will meet in Vilnius on Friday for informal talks. […]

Russia blackmails NATO over Baltics

April 2, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Russia has threatened to use “nuclear force” to defend its annexation of Crimea and warned that the “same conditions” that prompted it to take military action in Ukraine exist in the three Baltic states, all members of NATO, The Independent reports. […]

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