Defence
Defense Minister urges Baltic, Nordic states to step up collective defense
Lithuania’s Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis on Tuesday urged the Baltic and the Nordic states to enhance collective defense. […]
Nordic and Baltic
Pranckietis in USA: sanctions against Russia should be retained until full implementation of the Minsk agreements
Viktoras Pranckietis, Speaker of the Seimas, discusses transatlantic security, support to Eastern partners and transatlantic trade, while on a visit to Washington D.C., USA. […]
Foreign affairs
Seimas’ speaker Pranckietis going to US
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis is going to Washington D.C. early this week to attend a meeting of Nordic and Baltic parliamentary speakers with top-ranking US officials. […]
Defence
Lithuania to participate in the establishment of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats
On 11 April in Helsinki, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on the establishment of the European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats was signed by representatives of the U.S., the UK, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Finland, France, Sweden and Germany, Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in a press release. […]
Defence
NATO, Nordic, Baltic air force commanders meeting in Lithuania to discuss security
NATO’s Allied Air Command (AIRCOM) commander is meeting with commanders of the Air Forces of the Nordic and Baltic states and Poland in Lithuania on Wednesday to discuss the regional security situation, military cooperation and share the latest information about the national air forces. […]
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Lithuania should step up security cooperation with Nordic states – Minister of Defence
Lithuania should step military and security cooperation with the Nordic countries, Defence Minister Raimondas Karoblis said after meeting with Iceland’s top security, defense and military official in Vilnius on Friday. […]
CORPORATE
Foreign policy on old rails
Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius spoke on the new government programme implementation plan‘s foreign policy priorities and explained that the main goals over the next four years will be national security and economic diplomacy. […]
Defence
Finland, Sweden to consider training along with NATO force
Finland and Sweden will consider the possibility of their troops training along with NATO forces being deployed to Lithuania, the country’s chief of defense said. […]
Energy
Electricity price drops by 13% due to NordBalt and LitPol Link
In 2016, the average price for electricity in the Lithuanian bidding area of Nord Pool was the lowest in the history of the exchange: EUR 36.5 per megawatt hour (MWh). The price was 13% lower compared to 2015 and 25% lower than in 2014 and 2013, LitGrid AB informed in its press release today. […]
Opinion
About friends and allies
If during The Rīga Conference 2015 we began witnessing Kremlin’s adventure in Syria, today we observe casualties and the number deaths of this escapade. During the last 12 months, the world has beheld terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels, aggression of Russian football fans during Euro-2016 in France, and bombings in Aleppo. The Crimea remains occupied and the Russian aggression against Ukraine is still ongoing. […]
CORPORATE
New government’s vision – wishing to appear progressive, but…
The Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LPGU) and the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) coalition’s “Harmonious Lithuanian Cabinet” programme project only dedicated its very last comments to foreign and defence policy – 10 pages of 117. While the new government does not propose any earthshattering changes, some new accents raise eyebrows. […]
Freetime
10 Lithuanian restaurants listed in the White Guide Nordic
Most diners in Denmark and Sweden are familiar with the trademark and the many initiatives of the White Guide. For thirteen consecutive years, White Guide has published comprehensive local guides about the gastronomy of Sweden and Denmark, and 2014 saw the arrival of the very first guide in English covering the entire Nordic region. On 31st October, the third, most comprehensive edition yet will be released – this time covering almost 400 restaurants in the Nordics with additional chapters covering Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. […]
CORPORATE
DHL targets Lithuania, Baltics with new parcel service
Deutsche Post-owned DHL is to develop a new parcel delivery service and network across Lithuania, the Baltic States and Scandinavia in cooperation with Finnish postal operator Posti and Bring, a subsidiary of Posten Norge, the Norwegian postal operator. […]
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Nordic and Baltic states agree on assistance to Georgia and Ukraine
The Defence ministries of the Nordic and Baltic countries have signed an agreement on establishing a Nordic-Baltic Assistance Program to coordinate assistance to Georgia and Ukraine, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said in a statement. […]
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Nordic, Baltic and Poland are Europe’s new front-line states, security report says
Europe’s new front-line states are the Nordic countries, Baltic countries, plus Poland, which share a common concern about a “revisionist and rapidly-rearming Russia”, according to the Baltic Sea Security Report by the Centre for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). […]
Midsummer festival symbolizes bond between Baltic and Nordic peoples, president says
President Dalia Grybauskaitė took part in the Nordic Baltic Midsummer celebration at the Vilnius University Botanical Garden in Kairėnai – a traditional calendar festival observed together by Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Norway for the third consecutive year. […]
Parliamentary Baltic Network group established at Swedish Parliament
On 12 March, Lithuanian Ambassador to Sweden Eitvydas Bajarūnas, together with the Estonian and Latvian ambassadors Merle Pajula and Gints Jegermanis, attended a founding meeting of a parliamentary Baltic Network group at the Swedish Parliament. […]
Cooperation with Sweden is Lithuania’s key priority – ForMin Linkevičius
On 20 November in Vilnius, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius met with Speaker of the Swedish Parliament (Riksdag) Urban Ahlin and discussed bilateral and international policy issues, the ministry reports. […]