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Lithuanian Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė is leaving for Riga to take part in a meeting of Nordic and Baltic parliamentary speakers in the Nordic-Baltic Eight (NB8) cooperation format.

A recent study commissioned by Finland has outlined the pros and cons of the country joining NATO.

Every year, Estonia holds special military exercises called Spring Storm. The exercises are for those conscript soldiers who have just completed their term of service. This is their graduation event.

Lithuania should consider introducing a basic income model that could provide €200 to every citizen, changing the current complex and costly social security system, said economist Nerijus Mačiulis.

Politico has ranked Lithuania as one of the top 20 most influential countries in Europe.

Lithuania has been one of the loudest voices in Europe pushing for increasing energy independence from Russia, but not all EU countries are following this strategy. Finland, which is not a member of NATO, is set to increase its dependence on Russian gas and uranium, which has some in the country wor...

Six foreign ministers of the Baltic and Nordic states call on Europe not to let down pressure on Russia over the annexation of Crimea. What follows is their message:

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

A screening of The Midwife at the Embassy of Finland in Vilnius this past Friday saw members of the Finnish community in Lithuania come together. The film, that was mostly shot in Lithuania, is set in Finland during the Lapland war with the Nazi’s and was the first to receive a tax credit here.

Lithuanian entrepreneurs have been turning away from Russia as their primary market for exports and setting their sight on the Nordic countries. However, different rules apply in Scandinavia, with easy profits hard to come by.

Lithuanian border police arrested an illegal immigrant from Iraq and a Finnish citizen allegedly trying to smuggle him through Lithuania on Friday.

Lithuania has opened two new honorary consulates in India and Finland this week, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday.

The European Union might have to sacrifice the free movement of people for the sake of security, if it fails to control the flow of migrants, Lithuanian Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Tuesday.

Minister of Energy Rokas Masiulis, who sent out a letter to ministers in Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Finland urging them not to buy electricity from the nuclear power plants in Belarus or Kaliningrad, received the first positive answer to his letter when he met with Estonian Minister of Economy and ...

Foreign direct investment in Lithuania rose for a third consecutive quarter, with an inflow of €247.2 million FDI secured in the third quarter of 2015.

On 15 December, Lithuania's Ministry of Energy held a meeting of the Committee of Senior Energy Officials of the Baltic Council of Ministers (BCM) to address the development of a regional gas market and to cooperate on the synchronisation of the Baltic states' power systems with the networks of Cont...

Ambassador of Finland, Mr Harri Mäki-Reinikka, is convinced that the Finnish Patria, as the market leader among 8X8 armoured wheeled vehicles, is the most suitable option for Lithuania.