The recently criticized Lithuania‘s diplomacy could remind that in principle it was its initiative to join the EU efforts in order to stop increasing the number of states not respecting the territorial integrity of Georgia, to start the dialogue between the EU and Belarus, to enhance the political development of the Eastern Partnership and [...]
President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė received the President of Slovenia, Danilo Türk, who came to Vilnius on an official visit.
This is the first official visit by President Danilo Türk to Lithuania.
“It is symbolic that on the eve of March 11, the Day of Restoration of Independence of Lithuania, Vilnius is visited [...]
Estonian President Toomas Henrik Ilves called on Monday for closer cooperation with Russia in combating illegal immigration to EU countries.
“I mean cooperation between the police and border protection services of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland and Sweden, as well as our cooperation with Russia, because it is from there that illegal refugees are attempting to [...]
Latvia’s ruling New Era party said on Sunday it would appeal against a decision by the Latvian capital’s legislature to ban a demonstration by Waffen SS veterans and their supporters on March 16.
The decision to ban the Waffen SS veterans demonstration was made by the Riga Duma on Friday.
The New Era party argued on [...]
With its accession to the EU, Nato and the Schengen zone Lithuania has achieved important foreign policy goals.
News portal Delfi now demands that new challenges and partners be sought for their realisation:
The EU’s history shows on the one hand that Germany and France have most say in the EU’s policy decisions and therefore [...]
Russians victims of their own propaganda
The number of negative articles on Lithuania is growing by the day on Russian Internet sites, writes the news portal Balsas:
“The readers then put their comments at the bottom, in which they delight – very much along the lines of Russian propaganda – that Lithuania has so many problems, [...]
The Latvian parliament plans to vote on a proposal which would limit trade with alcohol in the near future. The daily Latvijas Avīze welcomes the initiative:
“In Latvia more than 10 litres of pure alcohol are consumed per capita and per year, there are countless alcoholics and statistics show that the number of minors [...]
Despite temperatures of -5 Celsius, a huge crowd of Lithuanians brave the icy waters of the Baltic for a dip they say will keep them healthy.
Karen Selby reports.
RIGA (RIA Novosti) – In Latvia’s largest ever leak of confidential info, a total of 7.4 million of tax documents were stolen from the server of the country’s state revenue service, the country’s media said.
The LTV1 channel said in its De Facto program on Sunday evening that unidentified people received access to documents on incomes [...]
Russian commentators have devoted enormous attention to the Russian-speaking communities in Estonia and Latvia, but they have largely ignored the Russian-speaking community in Lithuania not only because it is significantly smaller but also because Vilnius did not require Russians living there to do anything but ask for citizenship to obtain it.
Now, however, it appears [...]
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