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Why relations between Lithuania and Latvia aren’t all that fraternal
Lithuania and Latvia have much in common on a strategic level. Yet relations between the two aren’t especially brotherly. That’s how political expert Linas Kojala put it on LRT.lt. In his opinion it is difficult to pin down a special closeness between the two countries with actual examples. Vytautas Magnus University Professor Alvydas Butkus notes that representatives of the two countries’ governments would seemingly like to communicate but there aren’t close ties between the two societies. […]

Via Baltica highway upgrade in limbo due to fund shortages
Lithuania is finishing the reconstruction of a stretch of the Via Baltica highway – as part of the European route E67 from Prague to Helsinki is known – near Kaunas. However, there are no funds […]

€1.5 bln to be invested in Lithuania’s transport sector
“The transport sector is one of the major and most significant components of economic and social infrastructure. It is, therefore, necessary that particular attention is paid to it. During the 2014-2020 financial period, more than EUR 1.5 billion in EU structural funds are to be invested in this sector,” says Lithuanian Minister of Transport and Communications Rimantas Sinkevicius. […]