Slovakia

  • History

Eighty years after the Christmas Agreement, the emergence of an illegal parliament

Bratislava before Christmas in 1943, based on which the Slovak National Council (the last in history and still active, at…

12 months ago
  • Central/Eastern Europe

A. Kubilius: Populism in the New Europe: the end of the beginning or the beginning of the end?

In 2024, we will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the "New Europe" - on 1 May, it will be 20…

1 year ago
  • Central/Eastern Europe

A menacing uncertainty for Lithuania, whose internal election results could not be changed by any

The campaign for the Lithuanian presidential election is slowly gaining momentum, although there are only two publicly announced contenders for…

1 year ago
  • Opinion

Two plus two is not necessarily four: German policy towards the Visegrád countries

Until 2015, very few people had heard of the term “Visegrád Group” in Germany, let alone had a sense about…

6 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Opinion

L. Kasčiūnas: How many migrants shall Lithuania take in this time?

The deadline established two years ago for EU Member States to take in a fixed number of refugees has expired.…

7 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuanian EC member: EC starts drafting unified food quality assessment methodology

The European Commission has ordered the development of a unified food quality assessment methodology in the European Union (EU) to…

7 years ago
  • Opinion

Kazys Skirpa: Saviour of Independence or Perpetrator of Crimes against Humanity

Kazys Skirpa (1895 – 1979) was the head of the Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF) and whom in 1941 rebels declared…

8 years ago
  • CORPORATE
  • Opinion

Lithuania’s greatest struggle – affluent countries will not understand this

The affluent EU member states have seen population increases over the past decade and this has led to more rapid…

8 years ago
  • European Union

Lithuania most Brexit-vulnerable country in Eastern Europe

The United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union (EU) will have the biggest negative effect upon Lithuania among all countries…

8 years ago
  • Society

Lithuania’s death rates from overdoses twice EU average

The European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction has said that Lithuania's mortality rate due to drug overdoses is…

9 years ago
  • Defence

Visegrad 4 countries commit to sending troops to Baltic States

The Visegrad Group, which contains Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, have agreed to send rotating forces to the…

9 years ago
  • Society

Lithuania’s democracy held back by corruption, says Freedom House

Though the level of democracy in Lithuania is higher than in Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Bulgaria, it still lags behind…

9 years ago
  • European Union

Discrimination against some EU citizens cannot be price for avoiding Brexit – Lithuanian President

European Union countries must look for compromise and help the British government convince the British people to stay in the…

9 years ago
  • European Union

Lithuania backs EU refugee sharing plan

Despite objections from some Central and Eastern European countries, the European Union's interior ministers on Tuesday voted in support of…

9 years ago
  • Opinion

Opinion: Not human enough to be saved

It is a wrenching image. And it is an image that now speaks as the symbol for the refugee crisis…

9 years ago
  • Politics

PM says he’s unsure how many refugees Lithuania will have to accept

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is unsure how many refugees Lithuania will have to accept because the number will vary depending…

9 years ago
  • Society

Lithuanian law expert: Communist crimes tribunal a symbolic act but of little legal consequence

Establishing an international institution for investigating Communist crimes would be a rather symbolic act, but it will probably would not…

9 years ago
  • Defence

Lithuania joins NATO capacities creation group

At a NATO meeting of defence ministers in Brussels on Wednesday, Lithuania together with Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Romania and Slovakia…

9 years ago
  • European Union

Nordic, Baltic and Visegrad countries support Energy Union

During a sitting in Slovakia, foreign ministers and deputy foreign ministers of Nordic, Baltic, and Visegrad Group's countries expressed their…

10 years ago
  • Foreign affairs

Lithuania government proposes ambassador to Slovakia, Slovenia and Croatia

The Lithuanian Government has decided to propose the candidacy of Loreta Zakarevičienė, the current Lithuanian Ambassador to Austria, as the…

10 years ago