Baltic region

The fifth annual Traditional and Renewable Energy Forum will take place on May 10 in Vilnius.

Russia's intensifying military activities have forced NATO to respond in kind, with the Alliance saying it will conduct more military exercises in Europe, and the United States promising to deploy far more equipment and forces in Europe. In 2017, Washington is setting aside $3.4 billion for Europe's...

The U.S. has a long history of championing the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Baltic states, dating back to the interwar period of the 1920s. Today, U.S. interest in the Baltic region derives primarily from its treaty obligations as part of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)...

Concepts of military strategy and doctrine have long influenced the political and military geography of the Baltic region.

Britain is sending five warships to Lithuania and the Baltics as part of an increased NATO presence in the region to act as a deterrent against Russia.

Trucks carrying goods from Russia to Western Europe are stuck in three- to four-kilometre-long lines at international ferry ports on the Baltic after Russia and Poland failed to negotiate a deal on bilateral permits for the vehicles.

The Kremlin‘s propaganda rarely shocks anymore and hardly registers as news with most people but some of it deserves attention because when a specific propaganda message is repeated over and over, it is done in an attempt to embed it in our minds as being the uncontestable truth. In the case of Kali...

Poland is set to sign a deal to build a highly strategic gas pipeline to the Baltic states as part of an effort to break Russia's energy stranglehold over the three EU members, the Financial Times reports.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden who are on a three-day state visit in Lithuania. During their meeting, the president and the Swedish royal couple discussed the results and prospects of long-standing and close bilateral cooperation. Thi...

Carl XVI Gustav of Sweden and Queen Silvia are arriving in Vilnius on Wednesday for a state visit.

Latvia's new President Raimonds Vejonis will pay a working visit to Lithuania on 13 July. This will be the first visit of the new leader of the neighbouring country to Lithuania and his second foreign trip after he took the presidential oath.

Natural gas supply and trading company Litgas, part of Lithuania's state owned energy holding Lietuvos Energija, and Norway's Statoil, a leading global energy company in oil and gas production, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Thursday in Vilnius regarding establishment of a joint ventu...

The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Prof. Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, Director, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University. Edward Lucas, an expert on Russia and the Baltic region, said this in a Power Vertical ‘We could have a sharp security crisis this fall i...

The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Mr Thomas Countryman, Assistant Secretary, from the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. Edward Lucas, an expert on Russia and the Baltic region, said this recently ‘We could have a sharp security crisis this fa...

Introducing the Government's annual activity report for 2014 at the Seimas, parliament, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius started with the mention of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal project, the adoption of the euro and augmentation of Lithuania's defence capabilities.

The Germany-based Klasmann-Deilmann Group has announced EUR 11 million worth of investments in Klaipėda County, Lithuania. The company is to build a further state-of-the-art production line for manufacturing peat products and growing media for the worldwide commercial-horticulture sector. Its intend...

25th Anniversary of the Restoration of Independence of Lithuania was celebrated in Brussels on March 16. Belgium’s government and business officials, diplomats, representatives from NATO and EU institutions and friends of Lithuania were present at the event.

Lithuania is considering to contribute to the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), or the so-called “Juncker-plan”, but it would like to see that money earmarked for projects of the Baltic region.

On 20 January, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas met with Canadian Defence Minister Robert Nicholson at Canada's National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa. Both ministers addressed a number of common security and defence issues, including joint efforts to support Ukraine.

Baltic Assembly President Giedrė Purvaneckienė on Tuesday pinpointed practical priorities of the Baltic countries' inter-parliamentary cooperation.