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Prime Minister of Lithuania Gintautas Paluckas, who is visiting Estonia on Monday, does not see any threat for cooperation between the Baltic countries and the United States. He stresses that the transatlantic partnership is a crucial measure of deterrence against Russia.
The United States embassy in Poland has turned to Lithuania for help with the US egg shortage caused by outbreaks of bird flu, Verslo žinios reported on Wednesday.
Speaker of the Seimas of Lithuania Saulius Skvernelis is optimistic about the talks between Ukraine and the United States that were held in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday. He says that Russia’s next steps may reveal its true intentions.
The United States’ 25% import tax on the European Union (EU) could lead to a 0.5 percentage-point drop in Lithuania’s gross domestic product (GDP), the head of the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists (LPK) warns.
Lithuania may find it difficult to trust this strategic partner in the future after the United States paused its military aid to Ukraine, the Seimas speaker has said, urging Europe to take the lead in addressing security challenges.
President Gitanas Nausėda says an agreement between Ukraine and the United States on mineral wealth would prompt Washington to care about Kyiv’s security more.
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Kęstutis Budrys has mentioned that the European Union should consider how to offset support that the United States provides to Ukraine. Yet chief adviser to the president on foreign affairs Asta Skaisgirytė notes that this would be challenging for the EU Memb...
Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas has said that a delegation of the Baltic States will be travelling to the United States in the nearest future.
Former US President George W. Bush’s promise to defend Lithuania, made over 20 years ago in a speech, is still valid, says a former Commanding General of US Army Europe.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas thinks it is too early to estimate whether tariffs on aluminium and steel, which President of the United States Donald Trump plans to impose on the European Union, may have a direct effect on Lithuania.
Lithuanian officials have expressed condolences over the plane crash that happened on Wednesday in the United States’ capital.
Let us admit – Donald Trump is unrivalled as political survivor and trickster. There is only one world leader about whom Baltic opinions have any relevance – Vladimir Putin. Our anticipation about our tyrant neighbor was proved most adequate. When it comes to Donald Trump, Baltic distant and calm ob...
The European Union’s (EU) ambassador to the United States and the owner of Avia Solutions Group Gediminas Žiemelis were the only Lithuanians who attended the inauguration of the 47th US President Donald Trump on Monday.
Deputy Seimas Speaker Juozas Olekas and a delegation of the Seimas Committees on National Security and Defence (NSGK) and Foreign Affairs will travel to the United States for talks in March.
The inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States opens new possibilities to halt Russia, says Mykhailo Podolyak, advisor to the Office of the President of Ukraine, in this year-end interview with Delfi. As 2024 draws to a close, it marks the third consecutive year of a major war oc...
Seimas Speaker Saulius Skvernelis met with the United States Ambassador Kara Cherise McDonald on Tuesday, the parliamentary press service reports.
President Gitanas Nausėda says the United States will remain Europe’s most important strategic ally regardless of the presidential election’s outcome but European countries need to increase their defence budget to retain this transatlantic partnership.
On Monday, 23 September, representatives of the Lithuanian Government and the United States’ defence industry company Northrop Grumman International Trading signed a memorandum on munitions production in Lithuania. A production line of 30 mm ammunition, which is valued several dozen of millions of e...
On Wednesday, Minister of National Defence of Lithuania Laurynas Kasčiūnas met with United States Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall and discussed NATO’s rotational air defence model.
Lithuanian commercial air carriers have been granted permission to operate in the airspace of the United States, the transport minister says.
