Head of Lithuania's State Food and Veterinary Service (VMVT) Jonas Milius says that a ban on the transit of fish products, imposed by Russia on Lithuania, will not inflict significant damage because Lithuania's fish exports to Russia are relatively small.
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Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is attending the European Union's (EU) Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, says that the promises made to Eastern partners are sufficient, although the West has not committed itself to accepting them into the EU in the future.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, who is on an official visit to Kazakhstan, met on Tuesday with Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Massimov and other high-ranking officials.
The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is the instrument through which the European Union (EU) aims to create bonds between its Member States and the countries at the boundaries of the EU and thus secure the stability of the European borders. The EU stipulates Association Agreements offering financ...
A 1,000-ton shipment of butter from Lithuania has got stuck due to Russia’s ban on the transportation of goods to Uzbekistan through Belarus.
As the competition between Russia and the West over Ukraine unfolds, there is a similar yet more subtle process occurring in the neighbouring state of Belarus. Lithuania has been one of the leading players in the effort to bring Belarus economically and politically closer to the European Union, a po...
"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...
The Lithuanian government will require that all cargo handlers provide preliminary information about cargo carried by rail to the territory of the Customs Union, the Customs Department said.