The European Commission says that representatives of some EU member states have apparently met with Russia‘s representatives in recent months to discuss food export issues without informing the EU’s executive body or other countries. […]
Lithuanian institutions suggest that the country should no longer keep secret the national black list of people barred from entering Lithuania due to potential threat to national security. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius on Wednesday called on other countries to help arm the Ukrainian army which is fighting against pro-Russian separatists in the east of the country. […]
While Ukraine‘s government forces are fighting pro-Russia separatists in the eastern Donbass region, Western leaders are engaging in a tense diplomacy game with Russian President Vladimir Putin. […]
For over a decade now we in Lithuania are being told that Germany is always indulging Russia. This line of criticism has lost some steam recently, after Angela Merkel played a crucial role in adopting hard sanctions on Russia. However, recent efforts by her and French President François Hollande to find a diplomatic solution to the Russia-Ukraine conflict have rekindled suspicions that there are plans to indulge Russia and betray Ukraine. […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited United States President Barack Obama in the White House on Monday. The visit, which had been planned for some time, saw both leaders discuss a wide array of trade and security issues. The recent developments in Ukraine, with Russia destabilizing the country, dominated a large part of the talks and the hour-long joint press conference that followed. The press conference was attended by Vice-President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry and UN Ambassador Susan Rice. […]
The European Union on Monday postponed the implementation of new sanctions against representatives of the Russian government and separatists in response to Ukraine‘s request, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said. […]
The European Union on Thursday agreed to blacklist three Russian executive government officials working in the area of defence as well as two members of the State Duma and 14 Russia-supported separatists, the Lithuanian ambassador said. […]
The Baltic and Benelux countries agree on the need to expand the existing sanctions against Russia by including more people into the blacklist. They also backed the introduction of new sectoral sanctions, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linkevičius said on Wednesday after meeting with his Baltic and Benelux counterparts in the Estonian capital of Tallinn. […]
Russia is trying to sow discord between the Baltic countries and other European Union (EU) Member States by halting plans to resume imports of pork from selected Western European countries, political scientist Dovilė Jakniūnaitė believes. […]
Having convened for an extraordinary session on 29 January, the European Union Foreign Affairs Council decided to extend current sanctions against Moscow. New restrictions against Russia will be imposed only if the situation in eastern Ukraine does not improve or deteriorates. Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius has called the decision an optimal one. […]
The new Greek government has agreed to impose more EU sanctions on Russia, while defending its right to shape European foreign policy, EUobserver reports. […]
Vilnius will state a strong position on the European Union‘s (EU) sanctions for Russia, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that, by possibly allowing Russia to choose EU member-states for which it will lift the food exports embargo, European Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis is dividing the unity of the European Union and standing up for Moscow’s interests. […]
Ukraine hopes for the European Union‘s unity in retaining and tightening sanctions against Russia and providing economic, political and military support, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, currently in Ukraine, said on Wednesday night. […]
EU foreign ministers are keen to quickly add names to the Russia blacklist, according to draft document prepared for emergency meeting on 29 January, EUobserver reports. […]
European Union leaders asked their foreign ministers on Tuesday to consider possible new sanctions on Russia in response to a rebel offensive in eastern Ukraine, Reuters reports. A final decision to impose them, however, is likely to be left to a summit next month. […]
On 26 January, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius met with UK Minister for Europe David Lidington in London and discussed possible results of the forthcoming EU’s Foreign Affairs Council. […]
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