This week has started with a seemingly surprising piece of news. Following a fairly unsuccessful election in the federal state of Hessen for her Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU), German Chancellor Angela Merkel announced […]
Lithuania’s ruling block on Thursday failed to muster enough votes to override President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s veto of amendments aimed at providing a state subsidy to the Lithuanian Social Democratic Labor Party (LSDDP). […]
Seimas National Security and Defence Committee chairman, “Farmer” group member Vytautas Bakas did not support the special commission on LRT activities conclusions in Seimas and the conclusions were not approved. Recently, V. Bakas has increasingly […]
Lithuania will be able send more troops and civilians to international operations in the next two years. […]
Colonel Modestas Petrauskas, commander of the Lithuanian Special Operations Forces, is set to be appointed Lithuania’s military representative to NATO and the European Union after the parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense gave the green light to his appointment. […]
Lithuania will consider sending more troops to Afghanistan and also appoint a civilian representative, says Lithuanian Minister of National Defense Raimundas Karoblis, currently on a visit to Afghanistan. […]
Lithuanian Minister of National Defense Raimundas Karoblis, currently on a visit to Georgia, on Friday met with his Georgian counterpart Levan Izoria. […]
The Seimas violated its Statute when it adopted an amendment to the budget bill that allows the state to borrow money to provide funding to new political parties, the parliament’s Commission for Ethics and Procedures said on Wednesday. […]
Tbilisi will continue to seek integration into the West regardless of who wins next Sunday’s presidential election, Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani said in Vilnius on Tuesday. […]
The Lithuanian state investment program earmarks more than 7.7 million euros for completing the construction of a complex of buildings of the State Security Department, or VSD. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday awarded Lieutenant General Joerg Kurt Willy Vollmer, commander of the German Field Army, with the Cross of Officer of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. […]
The Mechanized Infantry Brigade Iron Wolf of the Lithuanian Armed Forces has been affiliated to a German Army division. […]
Vygaudas Ušackas, a former diplomat seeking the Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats (HU-LCD) nomination to run in next year’s presidential election, calls on Lithuania to join a European military intervention force initiative launched by some EU member states. […]
Estonia is often presented as a model country among the Baltic States, however it faces all the same security challenges as Lithuania and Latvia, ranging from defence spending to ensuring security in the face of difficult relations with Russia, to finally issues with NATO itself. The Lithuania Tribune interviewed Estonian Minister of Defence Jüri Luik at the Riga Conference 2018 to find out more, how the Northernmost Baltic State perceives security in our region. […]
Lithuania’s defense budget is projected to reach 2.01 percent of GDP next year, according to a draft plan released on Tuesday. […]
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