German Chancellor Angela Merkel has stated on several occasions that stationing permanent NATO forces in Eastern Europe would be in breach of the 1997 NATO-Russia agreement. However, legal expert Erika Leonaitė, a lecturer at the International Relations and Political Science Institute of Vilnius Uni...
International Relations and Political Science Institute (TSPMI) of Vilnius University (VU
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Litgas, the gas trading arm of the state energy holding company Lietuvos Energija (Lithuanian Energy), and Norway's Statoil signed a five-year liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply deal preliminary valued at 2.5 billion to 3 billion litas (EUR 725-870m).
The Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) party might leave the ruling coalition following the dismissal of Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič but that would hardly have any impact on the government's work, political scientists say.
The Kremlin could apply counter-sanctions against the West in response to European Union (EU) and United States sanctions against Russia, say lecturers of the Vilnius University's Institute of International Relations and Political Science.
Now that Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski is mired in a phone-tapping scandal, political editors say that he could have been more beneficial in the European Union (EU) Foreign Policy chief post instead of in Polish Foreign Ministry