Lithuania: Gay marriage still unthinkable
The US’s Supreme Court has allowed same-sex marriage in all the country’s 50 states Lithuania unfortunately is lagging far behind such progressiveness, the ...
Estonia
Estonia could take in up to 156 refugees
Even 156 refugees too many for Estonians The EU states agreed last Thursday to take in refugees on a voluntary basis rather than ...
Estonia
Amoral: Estonia is reluctant to take refugees
Estonia must take in more refugees Estonia’s government is reluctant to take in further refugees under a system of proportional distribution within the ...
Estonia
Latvia: How to shape the economic climate in the long term
Latvia’s enviable economic policy The Latvian government on Thursday extended a law under which newly founded firms only pay nine percent value added ...
Scandinavia
Sweden: Women shouldn’t behave like princesses
Women, stand up for yourselves in the subway! An initiative last week called for men to be banned from sitting with their legs ...
Lithuanian timber industry gets priority
Lithuania has been presented with a draft law giving the country's timber industry first option-to-buy on the purchase of wood from domestic forests
Poland
John Paul II unforgotten in Poland
Polish Pope John Paul II died ten years ago today The holy father will forever remain in the memory of Poles, the liberal ...
Politics
Russian-Estonian border treaty good for Europe
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent the Estonian-Russian border treaty to parliament for ratification at the end of March The editor-in-chief of the monthly ...
Newspapers Review
Plane crash: The press is shocked – Europe united in grief
French President François Hollande, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy will travel today to the crash site in the ...
Economy & Finance
The bankruptcy of the Latvian capital is now obvious to everyone
Mayor to blame for Riga's near bankruptcy
The fear of Islam in Lithuania is growing
Islamophobia in Lithuania only helps the Kremlin
Latvia
Latvian parliamentary election: The voters want a return to the old Soviet times
After its victory in the parliamentary elections in Latvia on October 4, the pro-Western centre-right coalition led by Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma will continue ...
