Until 2015, very few people had heard of the term “Visegrád Group” in Germany, let alone had a sense about its purpose. At that time the group – also called “V4” after its four member states Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary – saw its main task in the coordination and exchange of information, national positions, as well as cooperation on „soft“ projects such as infrastructure. […]
The deadline established two years ago for EU Member States to take in a fixed number of refugees has expired. Further ways of tackling the problem are currently under debate. In order to shape the […]
The European Commission has ordered the development of a unified food quality assessment methodology in the European Union (EU) to prevent different food standards in the community, said Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, Lithuanian commissioner in charge of health and food safety. […]
Kazys Skirpa (1895 – 1979) was the head of the Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF) and whom in 1941 rebels declared the prime minister of an independent Lithuania. It is worth reading and making known a […]
The affluent EU member states have seen population increases over the past decade and this has led to more rapid economic development among them. The less well-off member states experienced the opposite processes – a […]
The United Kingdom‘s withdrawal from the European Union (EU) will have the biggest negative effect upon Lithuania among all countries of Eastern Europe, Standard & Poor‘s said in a statement.
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The European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction has said that Lithuania’s mortality rate due to drug overdoses is more than twice the EU average. […]
The Visegrad Group, which contains Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, have agreed to send rotating forces to the Baltic States from next year. […]
Though the level of democracy in Lithuania is higher than in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria, it still lags behind its Baltic state neighbours of Estonia and Latvia, according to U.S.-based nongovernmental organisation Freedom House. […]
European Union countries must look for compromise and help the British government convince the British people to stay in the Union, but not at the price of discrimination against EU citizens, says Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė ahead of important talks in Brussels. […]
Despite objections from some Central and Eastern European countries, the European Union‘s interior ministers on Tuesday voted in support of the plan to share 120,000 refugees. […]
It is a wrenching image. And it is an image that now speaks as the symbol for the refugee crisis shaming all of Europe. The tiny corpse of Aylan Kurdi, the three-year-old Kurdish boy from the besieged Syrian city of Kobane, washed up on a Turkish shore like so much refuse. He had escaped ISIL, but he could not escape the wrath of the sea. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is unsure how many refugees Lithuania will have to accept because the number will vary depending on how many people the European Union (EU) decides to relocate. […]
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. […]
During a sitting in Slovakia, foreign ministers and deputy foreign ministers of Nordic, Baltic, and Visegrad Group’s countries expressed their support for the idea of creating the Energy Union. […]
Russia has actively worked to boost its leverage in Central Europe over the past few years, and the crisis in Ukraine has only heightened the Kremlin’s interest in the region. Russia aims to use commercial and political ties to undermine Western institutions and to steer Central Europe toward Russian interests. […]
On 16 January, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius met with Miroslav Lajčák, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of Slovakia, Edgars Rinkēvičs, Foreign Minister of Latvia, and Keit Pentus-Rosimannus, Foreign Minister of Estonia, who are taking part in the Snow Meeting. […]
The spread of the Ukrainian crisis has aroused strong reactions of the USA and the European Union against Russian interference in Ukrainian politics. Russia is a strategic market for Europe and the close trades and financial links have pushed the European Union in the direction of a more moderate and careful response, at first. Because of the stalemate in the dialogue between Moscow and Kiev and the threat of a Russian military intervention in Ukraine, the EU has aligned its plan sanctions against Russia with the USA one, between July and September. […]
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