The Eastern Partnership program needs a new EU strategy, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says, adding that the Eastern Partnership policy needs to be taken to a new level.
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Participating in an Eastern Europe Studies Centre (RESC) discussion, Gitanas Nausėda once more stated his programme guidelines and stressed that we must not only feel like NATO members, but must also strengthen our position of membership, also adding that while the European Union is crucial, we shou...
Philosopher, politician and writer as well as presidential candidate Arvydas Juozaitis says that domestic policy is becoming more and more important and warns that we’ll be confronted with an even bigger wave of emigration and that, in his opinion, physical and military training in schools be steppe...
Which country do Lithuanians see as the friendliest and which – as the most hostile? What is the Lithuanian people’s perception of Donald Trump, Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin? What leads to such choices? After asking this of Lithuanian citizens in a number of surveys, not only old truths surface,...
The Eastern Europe Studies Centre organised its fourth Stasys Lozoraitis Annual Lithuanian Foreign Policy Conference, which featured a debate between potential presidential candidates on Lithuania’s position with the European Union resolving fundamental political challenges. The discussion had no la...
The names and places associated with the atrocities that stain the world’s recent history are only too well known: Guernica, Babi Yar, Sharpeville, Treblinka, Hiroshima, Halabja, Rwanda, Srebrenica and, more recently, Aleppo and Yemen, to name but a few. The memories of those who have suffered are a...
An Inaugural President Valdas Adamkus conference Restoring Regional Leadership took place at the Vilnius University on August 22. The Conference was hosted by Lithuania's former President Valdas Adamkus, and focused on Ukraine's future, the region's energy security and Europe-US relations. Read the ...
Both nations – the Lithuanians and the Polish – both recall well how our mutual conflict in between the two World Wars became a noose on both our necks. Then third parties put in great efforts in “helping” the conflict not reach resolution, but even the conflict itself was complex and difficult.
2017 could be the year of Russia’s return – the signs of this were discussed in a Tuesday afternoon discussion organised by the the Eastern Europe Studies Centre (RESC) and VU TSPMI. The political scientists discussed the topic of “What will decide Russian foreign policy in 2017?” It is likely that ...
The face-to-face meeting of the presidents of Lithuania and Poland, the first one since Poland's Andrzej Duda took office a year ago, has raised hope of ending the chill in Vilnius-Warsaw relations. However, a big break is hardly in view, political analysts say.
Three in five Lithuanians believe that Russia's foreign policies constitute a threat to Lithuania, shows a poll published by DELFI on Thursday.
Russia would defend the rights of its nationals and Russian speakers everywhere, including abroad. Such are the menacing notions emanating from the Kremlin for some time now. Meanwhile what would the ethnic Russians of Lithuania do if Russian tanks and “green men” rolled into Lithuania?
The European Union (EU) should make its final decision on visa-free travels for Georgia in early October at the latest, say Lithuanian diplomats. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
Lithuanians have been unwavering EU enthusiasts for over a decade since they joined in, all the while Brussels institutions largely lost favour of many European. Experts say it is about much more than just the money that Lithuania gets from the EU.
A recent poll asked Lithuania's ethnic minorities what they would do if the country were attacked by a foreign power. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.
Lithuania security analysts say that views of Russia in the West have been transformed over recent months by international events – from one of an aggressor undermining European security to a partner in Europe's struggle against terrorism.
