The Netherlands is building new coalitions within the EU to compensate for the loss of the UK as the union’s main free trade champion, and has found partners in the Baltic States. At the same time, a domestic policy issue involving gas supplies and the Dutch stance on Russia have the potential to put what has been dubbed the New Hanseatic League to the test Dario Cavegn writes in the ERR News. […]
Less than one week ago, when releasing the text on the relations between major European Union powers and the US, I did not expect myself to be writing so soon again. At the time when […]
“Solely Brussels is no good, but solely Washington is also no good. […] It is necessary to manoeuvre between the two positions,” political scientist Virgis Valentinavičius says, commenting on how Lithuania should act in the […]
Manfred Weber, leader of the European Parliament‘s largest political group, says that Lithuania should choose Europe amid recent tensions between the European Union and the United States. […]
The binding obligations imposed by the European Commission on Gazprom to prevent its dominance in Central and Eastern Europe will prove pointless if a second Nord Stream gas pipeline is built, Arvydas Sekmokas, a former Lithuanian energy minister, said on Thursday. […]
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas on Friday said he would take into account the Baltic states’ comments on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline currently under construction, despite Berlin still considering it to be a commercial project. […]
We mark twenty five years since the entry into force of the Maastricht Treaty introducing the common foreign and security policy of the European Union (EU), to which Lithuania actively contributed from the very outset, […]
The phrase that the European Union is the cornerstone of Lithuanian geopolitical security, which is often taken for granted, must be justified by answering the question, what sort of EU could actually perform such a […]
Lithuanian Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas on Thursday reiterated that Nord Stream 2, an underwater gas pipeline to be built in the Baltic Sea, will make the European Union even more energy-dependent and will let Russia strengthen its influence on the European energy sector. […]
The gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, which is projected on the bottom of the Baltic Sea, is in essence a political project and would cause major harm to Ukraine‘s economy, Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said during a visit in the country. […]
The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline planed on the bottom of the Baltic Sea is a geopolitical project of Russia and should not become reality, says Lithuania’s Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas, stressing the need to ensure compliance to top safety standards in the construction of the Belarusian nuclear power plant in Astravyets. […]
Lithuania’s Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas is leaving for Ukraine on Thursday to meet with Ukrainian officials and discuss the gas pipeline project Nord Stream 2 and possible cooperation in the decommissioning of nuclear power plants. […]
Lithuania’s Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas says he still has hope that the second line of the Nord Stream gas pipeline on the bottom of the Baltic Sea will not be built. […]
The doors of the White House will open for the three Baltic States’ presidents on Tuesday evening [the meeting has already been held on April 3, 2018]. Here the leader of our most important ally […]
The Nord Stream gas pipeline projected on the bottom of the Baltic Sea is an instrument of Russia‘s state policies, which will make Europe more dependent on Russia, say parliamentary speakers of Lithuania, Latvia and Poland. […]
With the influential European gas company association Eurogas releasing a statement in defence of the controversial Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 project and opposing the European Commission initiatives, the National Lithuanian Electricity Association (NLEA) […]
The presidents of Lithuania and Poland share a negative opinion on the Russian and German plans of building a Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline on the bottom of the Baltic Sea. […]
The future of the EU, an issue increasingly raised over the recent years, seems to generate fatigue. In fact, in Lithuania, in contrast to the rest of the EU, the debate on the matter is […]
Many of us have probably encountered or at least have heard of an undisciplined next-door-neighbour with a fondness for drinking. Let us call him Vovochka (the Russian equivalent of “Little Johnny”, a diminutive form of […]
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. […]
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