Eastern Europe

European Union countries must look for compromise and help the British government convince the British people to stay in the Union, but not at the price of discrimination against EU citizens, says Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė ahead of important talks in Brussels.

Prekybos tinklas „Maxima Latvija“ apskundė praėjusių metų pabaigoje Rygos teismo priimtą nutartį byloje pagal pirmąjį iš virtinės ieškinių, pateiktų dėl prekybos centro Zuolitūdės rajone stogo griūties 2013 metais, pareikalavusios daugiau negu 50 žmonių gyvybių, nurodė bendrovės atstovas Janis Beser...

The world is not facing a new Cold War, it is getting "very hot", Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said at the Munich Security Forum on Saturday, responding to Russia's statements.

One cannot choose one's neighbours. We have been assigned ours by history and geography. Lithuania has not been dealt a good hand. Although historic threats from Germany have retreated, Russia remains a dangerous neighbour. Lithuania will be vulnerable until Russia undergoes a radical transformation...

Defence ministers of NATO countries on Wednesday endorsed plans to step up the Alliance's military presence in Eastern Europe in response to Russia's actions, Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas said.

A recent announcement from Washington that the United States is giving a four-fold boost to its military spending in Europe has sent waves of joy through Lithuania, but it appears that most of the US military presence will be concentrated in Western Europe, which has the necessary infrastructure alr...

A major British army exercise to practice an Iraq invasion-scale operation with US forces in Jordan is in preparation for a possible confrontation with Russia in Eastern Europe.

Lithuania picked up five major awards at this year’s Central and Eastern Europe Shared Services and Outsourcing Awards in Warsaw and came out on top overall for the second year running.

Russian media has been flooded with articles in which senior Russian officials openly explain how they will attack and occupy the Baltic countries, but the Lithuanian foreign minister said the propaganda would not escalate tensions.

As the presidential race in the United States picks up pace, political analyst Simonas Klimanskis looks at which of the front-runners for the Democratic and Republican parties’ nominations would pursue foreign policies that are in the best interests of the Baltic States and Eastern Europe.

The EU wants to examine the contracts which Gazprom has signed with European companies including in Lithuania, amid suspicions that the Russian state energy company has imposed unfair prices which breach EU rules, a German newspaper has reported.

US President Barack Obama is planning to substantially increase the deployment of heavy weapons and armoured vehicles in Lithuania and the Baltic States, and all along NATO’s eastern flank, to send a signal to Russian President Vladimir Putin, writes the New York Times.

Draft proposals by European Council president Donald Tusk to keep Britain in the European Union include proposals for an ‘emergency brake’ that would allow countries to curb in-work benefits to migrants for up to four years that could affect the many Lithuanian emigrants living and working in the UK...

Hundreds of ordinary Lithuanians who saved Jews are honoured in Israel

Ping pong of historical references pepper European Parliament debate on Poland reforms and European Commission investigation

In a new memoir, former Swedish diplomat Bo J. Theutenberg alleges that Soviet and Eastern European intelligence infiltration of Swedish post-war society was far more extensive than previously understood and that Sweden’s Prime Minister Olof Palme may have been a key target. He also warns about the ...

The return to power of the PiS, the self-proclaimed Law and Justice Party, in Poland has become a real headache for EU policy makers much earlier than even pessimists had dared to predict.

Sausio 9 dieną Triesto mieste Italijoje bus atidaryta Balio Buračo premijos laureato Arturo Valiaugos fotografijų paroda „Ilgesio žemė". Parodos atidarymo metu bus pristatytas Kristijono Donelaičio „Metų“ itališkas leidimas (vertėjai Adriano Cerri, Pietro Umberto Dini, leidykla Joker Edizioni, 2014)...

This past Sunday, hundreds of people, Jewish and non-Jewish, packed into the Choral Synagogue on Pylimo Street to launch the happy holiday of Hanukkah (Khánike in Yiddish).

On 1 December in Warsaw, the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita presented the Jerzy Giedroyc award to Tomas Venclova, the Lithuanian poet, translator, publicist, and a well-known figure, for contributing to the current literary scene in Central and Eastern Europe. The award was also presented to the In...