Social entrepreneurship is one of areas Lithuania takes inspiration from the Nordics. According to Maria Christina Lundqvist, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Sweden to Lithuania, one key to success is a society that takes responsibility. […]
Ian Diaz / the Lithuania Tribune Politics is the new black, regardless of which one you choose, fictional or real. Just as many passions were stoked by the last season of House of Cards as […]
Politics is the new black, regardless of which one you choose, fictional or real. Just as many passions were stoked by the last season of House of Cards as were by Trump’s twitter account. […]
Which country do Lithuanians see as the friendliest and which – as the most hostile? What is the Lithuanian people’s perception of Donald Trump, Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin? What leads to such choices? After asking this of Lithuanian citizens in a number of surveys, not only old truths surface, but also unexpected details. […]
Lithuania ranks 36th in the annual World Press Freedom Index, produced by Reporters Without Borders, unchanged from last year. […]
The Netherlands is building new coalitions within the EU to compensate for the loss of the UK as the union’s main free trade champion, and has found partners in the Baltic States. At the same time, a domestic policy issue involving gas supplies and the Dutch stance on Russia have the potential to put what has been dubbed the New Hanseatic League to the test Dario Cavegn writes in the ERR News. […]
The Palestinians are considering opening their embassy in Vilnius later this year, making it a bridge for Arab countries to the Baltic states, Foreign Minister Riad al Malki says. […]
A future without cash was the subject of the Swedish-Lithuania Business Forum on Thursday in Vilnius. How to achieve that cashless society, the merits and some of the challenges was the main subject of presentations and panel discussions. Sweden gives us a closer look as to how the cashless future is shaping up. […]
We mark twenty five years since the entry into force of the Maastricht Treaty introducing the common foreign and security policy of the European Union (EU), to which Lithuania actively contributed from the very outset, […]
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 […]
Lithuania has come a long way from being one of the most hazardous road environments in the EU. Road fatalities have decreased substantially over the last 10 years. However, there is still a lot of room for improvement. Education and enforcement contribute to overall safety. The main factors to achieve safe roads are road design and reshaping human behaviour. Particularly speed, alcohol and risky driving styles contribute to road fatalities, no surprises. […]
In 2015, with the security environment on NATO‘s eastern frontiers deteriorating as a result of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, Lithuania made a rather sudden and dramatic decision to resume the mandatory military draft and thus […]
The public in Lithuania is too nervous about Zapad 2017, a large-scale military exercise that has started in Russia and Belarus, Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis said on Thursday morning. […]
The Lithuanian Migration Department has decided to deny asylum to Alisher Toshev, a Tajik national who was last week detained at Vilnius Airport over national security concerns and remains in special accommodation premises for asylum-seekers at the airport’s border control area. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says he was assured by his Swedish colleague that the Swedish MP’s initiative to block criticism for Belarus at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) did not reflect the entire country’s position. […]
At Sweden‘s imitative, Lithuanian parliamentarians’ resolution criticizing the construction of Belarus’ Astravyets nuclear power plant was blocked at the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe’s Parliamentary Assembly on Wednesday. […]
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