Association Agreement with the EU

Lithuanian and Ukrainian officials announce their intentions to increase bilateral trade as Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, continues his visit to Ukraine.

Despite Kiev’s official rhetoric, the national consensus on integration with the EU is increasingly fragile. Pro-Russian forces are reasserting themselves in the southeast, while ultra-right activists are campaigning against the European Union in the west. On top of that, the current pro-European go...

The association agreement between the EU and Ukraine, which was signed in 2014 but only came into effect on 1 January, will have a range of effects on the economies of both Ukraine and the EU. Rimantas Šėgžda, the Lithuanian Commercial Attache at the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Ukraine, ...

Georgia's ambassador to Lithuania, Khatuna Salukvadze, says that the Eastern Partnership summit to be held in Riga on 21 May cannot end in awkward silence instead of offering clear answers.

This January, the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre organized a big two-day international event for experts, politicians and intellectuals. The centrepiece of the second day of the conference was an address by Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

A new cold war is already on, and the West has made a mistake in being unprepared for such a situation, former British ambassador to Latvia Ian Bond said in an interview to lsm.lv.

After the European Parliament (EP) approved the EU-Moldova Association Agreement, MEP Petras Auštrevičius has said that Moldova is returning to where it belongs - the family of free and democratic European countries.

The Lithuanian Defence Ministry's policy director, who met with his EU counterparts in Brussels on Friday, underscored the need for reviewing EU member states' cooperation with their Eastern partners in light of the current situation in Ukraine.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė's former senior economic adviser Nerijus Udrėnas has been appointed to assist Ukraine in the implementation of the association agreement with the European Union (EU).

European Union (EU) ministers on Monday endorsed the postponement of the free trade agreement with Ukraine until 2016, stipulating that the document can only be changed by bilateral agreement, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said.

EU countries are planning to tell Russia it has no say on changing the Ukraine trade treaty despite its demands to rewrite the text, EUobserver reports.

Ambassadors of European Union (EU) member-states on Thursday finalized positions on postponement of the free trade agreement with Ukraine. The document incorporates safeguards, suggested by Lithuania, intended to curb Russia's future pressure, Lithuania's ambassador says.

The European Union's decision to give Ukraine more time to fully implement a trade pact to assuage Russian pressure is a potentially dangerous step that leaves the gates open for Moscow to press for major changes to the deal, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius told The Wall Street Journal...

In a letter to Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko, Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened that Moscow will shut Russian markets for Ukrainian exports if Kiev implements any part of a trade agreement with the European Union.

"It's a historic moment," was the reaction when Kiev and Brussels ratified the Ukrainian-EU Association Agreement on Tuesday. However, celebration might be somewhat premature, since Moscow, eager to keep Ukraine within its own sphere of influence and away from the EU, has won significant concessions...

Ratification of the Ukraine-European Union (EU) association agreement is a symbolic act, however, it is obscured by the decision to postpone enforcement of the free trade agreement amid pressure from Russia and some Ukrainian oligarchs, Lithuanian experts say.

Ukraine will never accept the loss of Crimea. Valery Zhovtenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Lithuania, said in the exclusive interview to ELTA news agency that only negotiation measures would be used to solve the issue of Crimea. In case it fails, the issue should be t...

Ukraine will receive a Lithuanian specialist who will help the country implement economic and integration reforms. The specialist who will provide assistance to the reform group established within the Ukrainian president's administration will be chosen and dispatched as soon as in September, Foreign...

EN.DELFI has interviewed the Minister of the Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Linas Linkevičius. We spoke about the next European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, significance of the European Union association and free-trade agreement with Ukraine and two other Eastern Partnership countries an...

These days, the international political scene has been shaken by two processes: the Kremlin’s aggression against Ukraine and the repercussions of the European elections,