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With the wave of recent terrorist attacks in Europe there is a perception that the threat from terrorism on the continent is higher than ever, but the statistics show that the number of deaths from terrorist attacks in Europe is far lower now than in previous decades.
In the wake of any shocking event, national governments and officials of the European Union invariably call for more cooperation between member states to prevent anything similar happening in the future. The response to the March 22 terrorist attacks in Brussels has been no different.
Attacks in Brussels last week were not an assault against NATO, US Ambassador to the North Atlantic Council Douglas Lute tells LRT television. He visited Lithuania last week as part of a NATO delegation ahead of the summit in Warsaw this summer where Lithuania and other eastern Alliance members are ...
Police across Europe have stepped up their efforts to prevent further ISIS attacks in European cities after the Brussels bombings, with 10 more suspects arrested in Belgium, Germany and France.
Belgian police are now hunting a fifth suspect in the Brussels bombings as the names and nationalities of the victims of the two attacks begin to trickle out.
Belgium’s Brussels Airlines, which suspended flights to Vilnius after Tuesday's terrorist attacks in Brussels' Zaventem airport, is moving its flights to the airport of Liege, located approximately 80 kilometres east of the Belgian capital.
In the wake of the attacks in Brussels, Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė expressed her disappointment in Europe's "naive" reaction to terrorism and called for a war on terrorism.
Lithuanian national flags and flags of the European Union were Wednesday replaced by Belgian flags outside the Lithuanian government building following the Tuesday's attacks in Brussels.
The Belgian police identified two suicide bombers who carried out attacks in Brussels on Tuesday as brothers Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui and are looking for a third suspect captured in CCTV footage.
The problem of terrorist attacks is not just an issue for the law enforcement authorities but for Western European society as a whole, said Lithuanian political scientist Laurynas Kasčiūnas.
The terrorism threat level in Lithuania will not be increased after the terrorist attacks in the Belgian capital Brussels, according to the Lithuanian Coordination Council of the security services.
The Lithuanian government has decided to call a national day of mourning in tribute of victims of Tuesday's terrorist attacks in Brussels.
Brussels was the scene of multiple explosions on March 22, highlighting the persistent vulnerability of soft targets to simple, effective attacks — as well as the willingness and capability of militants in Western Europe to undertake those attacks.
