European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker warned Moscow Wednesday the security of European Union member nations was sacrosanct, amid growing alarm in eastern states over the crisis in Ukraine. […]
Lithuania’s Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis is going on a visit to Poland to discuss ways to speed up the implementation of GIPL, the Gas Interconnection Poland-Lithuania project, and other energy cooperation issues. […]
Heavy equipment has some limitations in the Baltic terrain, a US Army Europe delegation has concluded after visiting Latvia, the US military magazine Stars and Stripes reports. […]
Between the two world wars, Lithuania was an enthusiastic new nation state caught in a precarious international situation. Trapped between two expansionist powers, Germany and the Soviet Union, Lithuania tried to strengthen its security, but the main handicap was its feud with Poland over Vilnius. One diplomat tried to change that but it was too late. […]
Establishing an international institution for investigating Communist crimes would be a rather symbolic act, but it will probably would not lead to prosecution of those behind the Communist repressions, says Professor Justinas Žilinskas of the Lithuanian Mykolas Romeris University’s Department of International and European Union Law. […]
A group of citizens plan to propose to the country’s parliament to adopt legal amendments allowing to write non-Lithuanian names of Lithuanian nationals on an additional passport page. […]
Poland‘s new President Andrzej Duda is going to Estonia for his first foreign visit and is later scheduled to visit Berlin, London and New York. […]
The ministers of agriculture of the Baltic States and Poland submitted a joint petition to the European Commissioner in charge of health care and food safety to ease trade restrictions on pig farmers and pork handlers in the African swine fever (ASF) outbreak region. […]
On the last days of his term as the President of Poland, Bronislaw Komorowski made a present to Lithuania. He handed over documents relating to his grandparents’ former estate in Lithuania and works by a Polish artist who lived in Lithuania. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has downplayed NATO‘s plans to reduce the air policing mission in the Baltic states, saying that eight fighter-jets are perfectly sufficient for efficient protection of the air-space. In his words, rotations are planned for the coming five years. […]
Most of the time history can’t be put to bed even though agreements to end wars have been concluded, victors have drawn new boundary lines, promises made, but they soon get either forgotten or swept under the rug, as if they weren’t there. The story of the northern part of former East Prussia (now known as the Kaliningrad exclave) is a good example of a conveniently ignored agreement made at the 1945 Potsdam conference to resolve the fate of the territory at a later peace treaty with Germany. […]
The 15th T-Mobile New Horizons film festival opens in Wrocław on July 23. Among other films it will feature the most distinct Lithuanian films created from 1959 to 2015. The special film programme Focus on Lithuania includes a record number of 30 features tracing the complex history and culture of the country during the Soviet period, the path to independence, and the decades of sovereignty. […]
Lithuanian, Polish and Ukrainian defence ministers will Friday in Lviv sign an agreement on establishment of a joint military brigade. […]
One of the detained ships of state-controlled company Lietuvos Jūrų Laivininkystė (Lithuanian Shipping Company, or LJL), which is facing bankruptcy proceedings, has returned from the Polish port of Gdansk to Klaipėda, Transport Minister Rimantas Sinkevičius confirmed on Thursday morning. […]
A Lithuanian delegation has left for Grunwald, Poland, to attend the 605th anniversary of the Battle of Žalgiris (also known as the Battle of Grunwald), Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said on Friday. […]
The European Commission and European Union (EU) member-states have approved financial support in the amount of EUR 27.4 million for the LitPol Link power interconnection between Lithuania and Poland, Litgrid AB, the Lithuanian electricity transmission system operator, reports. […]
Outgoing Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski, who was presented with an honorary doctorate by Kaunas-based Vytautas Magnus University on Tuesday, underlined his ties with Lithuania. […]
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