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Foreign affairs

Foreign affairs and security experts discussed 2014 NATO Summit decisions in Lithuania’s embassy in Stockholm

The Embassy of Lithuania in Stockholm – NATO Contact Point Embassy in Sweden – in cooperation with Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and British Embassy in Stockholm organized the working dinner in order to discuss the implications of 2014 NATO Summit decisions in Cardiff for the Baltic Sea Region, for Europe and for the Trans-Atlantic Relations. […]

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Opinion

Opinion: What do Russian probes in the Baltic portend?

Earlier this month (October 2014), Scandinavian, and especially Swedish, media have focused on Sweden’s apparently abortive efforts to locate what was allegedly a disabled Russian reconnaissance submarine off its shores near Stockholm. But beyond the glaring evidence of the degradation of Swedish military capabilities — a condition it shares with most if not all of Europe — there is a larger story here. […]

Stefan Löfven
Uncategorized

Sweden must revise its defence capacities, PM Löfven says in Vilnius

Sweden must revise its defence capacities in the light of the growing Russian military power and the latest developments in the Baltic Sea region, the country’s new Prime Minister Stefan Löfven said in Vilnius on Tuesday. […]

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Energy

Energy minister: Submarine incident near Sweden poses no threat to Lithuanian LNG terminal project

Minister of Energy Rokas Masiulis has said that the incident in the Swedish Baltic Sea waters, where a suspected Russian submarine might have been spotted over the weekend, should not hamper Lithuania’s Liquefied Natural Gas terminal project. […]

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Society

“Room Service? – Send up a bigger room”

The Shakespeare Hotel in Vilnius started me thinking. Not because of its name, or its book-lined ‘library room’, or even the fact of its proximity to Vilnius University, where I was currently working. The Shakespeare and the Kempinsky in University Street are my two Lithuanian favourites, not least because of the latter’s Tappa snacks. Seared Escalope of Foie Gras and Beluga Lentils, need I say more? […]

Eitvydas Bajarūnas
Defence

Lithuanian ambassador presented NATO Wales Summit results in Stockholm

As Lithuania’s embassy in Sweden is serving as NATO Contact Point Embassy 2013-2014, Ambassador of Lithuania Eitvydas Bajarūnas met with Swedish Naval Officers Club members on 16 September in Stockholm. […]