Eastern Partnership

Lithuania had expected more from last week's EU Eastern Partnership summit, says Benediktas Juodka, chairman of the Lithuanian Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Some countries would like to see the European Union as "a tea club" that does not make any decisions, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Friday.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is attending the European Union's (EU) Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, says that the promises made to Eastern partners are sufficient, although the West has not committed itself to accepting them into the EU in the future.

Free movement of persons is a fundamental value, Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė stated in Riga on Friday, commenting on the United Kingdom's efforts to renegotiate the immigration rules with the European Union (EU).

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that a lot has been achieved since the last summit of the European Union's (EU) Eastern Partnership that took place in Vilnius 18 months ago, stressing that the Eastern Partnership programme is a contribution to European security.

British Prime Minister David Cameron will start face-to-face discussions at the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga on Friday with European partners on renegotiating Britain's position in the European Union (EU) ahead of an in-out referendum by 2017.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that at the European Union's (EU) Eastern Partnership Summit the EU will once again assure its commitment to cooperate with countries of Eastern Europe. However, the extent of cooperation will depend on the resolve of each country.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has indicated that former Soviet states that are part of the European Union's Eastern Partnership programme should not expect any promises of full membership.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday and Friday is attending the EU Eastern Partnership summit in Riga. The summit will review the results of the Eastern Partnership programme achieved after the Vilnius summit held at the end of 2013 and will outline guidelines for further cooperation...

A Latvian journalist has felt the wrath of the Lithuanian president after asking several questions that "have not been agreed upon". The president insistently, and rather gracelessly, refused to answer questions about gay rights in Lithuania, a supermarket roof collapse in Riga and basketball.

The gloomy mood ahead of the EU Eastern Partnership Summit in Riga this week is in a stark contrast with the expectations that prevailed before the similar meeting in Vilnius one and a half years ago.

Georgia's ambassador to Lithuania, Khatuna Salukvadze, says that the Eastern Partnership summit to be held in Riga on 21 May cannot end in awkward silence instead of offering clear answers.

When the leaders of 34 countries meet on 21-22 May for the Riga Eastern Partnership Summit, we will be confronting geopolitical realities which are dramatically different from those which framed our last gathering.

Eastern Partnership Ministerial Meeting on Trade took place on 7 May in Brussels. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Rolandas Kriščiūnas said that although the European Union's (EU) trade volume with Georgia and Moldova was growing, the benefit of free trade treaties would be revealed f...

The 9th of May marks the 65th anniversary of the historical Schuman Declaration. On that day in 1950 in Paris, French Foreign Affairs Minister Robert Schuman proclaimed the idea of supranational community which became the foundation of the European Union as we know it today, the Ministry of Foreign ...

Seeking European integration, Moldova needs to fight corruption and work with Transnistria, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, visiting Chisinau, said on Monday, adding that deep-rooted corruption is undermining trust in the country's government.

Ukraine expects that the Eastern Partnership summit in Riga later this month will provide answers about the perspectives of visa-free travels to the European Union (EU), Ukraine's Ambassador to Lithuania Valeriy Zhovtenko told BNS.

The foreign ministers of Lithuania and Sweden are going to Moldova on Monday to discuss the country's relations with the European Union (EU) and security matters.

The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is the instrument through which the European Union (EU) aims to create bonds between its Member States and the countries at the boundaries of the EU and thus secure the stability of the European borders. The EU stipulates Association Agreements offering financ...

Prime ministers of the three Baltic states are holding an informal meeting in Vilnius on Friday on the situation in Ukraine and joint energy and transport projects.