Lithuanian Political Science Association in cooperation with Central European Political Science Association (CEPSA) is organising the 20th CEPSA conference on 25-26 September at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University (VU TSPMI), the International Politic...
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On 14 September, Europe's justice and interior affairs ministers will convene in Brussels to agree on tangible measures to solve the intensifying refugee crisis. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico said that Central European premiers - of the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary - would have a...
Tuesday, September 1, 2015, bilateral discussion and consultation on Eastern European partnership between Lithuanian and Israeli experts will be held in Vilnius, according to a press release by the Embassy of Israel.
Last Tuesday, NATO decided to reduce the number of fighter jets stationed in the Baltic states as part of the NATO air policing mission. The number of fighter jets is to be cut from 16 down to 8.
NATO's leadership decided to downsize the Baltic air policing mission in order to make rational use of resources, but Lithuania should not applaud it, as it reduces the Alliance's visibility, says political scientist Gražvydas Jasutis. Meanwhile his colleague Kęstutis Girnius believes that the reinf...
There was a time right after World War Two when Lithuanians believed that the United States of America would swoop into a Soviet-occupied country and drive the Soviets away. These hopes were rather baseless, yet the USA did stand by its policy not to recognise the annexation of the Baltic states. Th...
The Baltic states will be Russia's next target after Ukraine as Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to test NATO, Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia and now the governor of Ukraine's Odessa region, said in an interview on Tuesday.
A couple of days ago, on 10 July, news came that two new border signs sprang up in Georgia, declaring that here begins the “border of South Ossetia". One of the signs moved about 300 metres from its original position into the zone controlled by Tbilisi, the other sign progressed forwards by about a ...
Lithuanian political scientist Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, director of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University, says that the Greek government is realizing the ineffectiveness of its combative position and is now trying to look for allies in Europe.
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Prof. Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, Director, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University. Poland elected a new president, Andrzej Duda. Is this going to bring a ‘thaw’ in Lithuanian-Polish relationship we asked Prof Vilpišauska...
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Prof. Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, Director, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University. Reuters reported that Pentagon plans storing a company's worth of equipment, enough for 150 soldiers, in each of the three Baltic states....
Presidential adviser Jovita Neliupšienė will be appointed Lithuania's ambassador to the European Union, replacing outgoing Ambassador Raimundas Karoblis.
Lithuanian leaders will have no time for outgoing Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski who is scheduled to come to Lithuania on Tuesday to receive an honorary doctorate from Vytautas Magnus University in the country's second-largest city of Kaunas.
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Prof. Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, Director, Institute of International Relations and Political Science, Vilnius University. Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Commission's vice-president for the euro and social dialogue, has warned that Lithuania's budget deficit...
Political observers say there were not surprised by Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė's statements on foreign policy she made in her State of the National Address on Thursday. The president's observations were realistic, but at times too abstract, they say.
Lithuania's foreign policy is not without some ambivalence. Vilnius aspires to be a regional leader and set an example to other small countries, Lithuania demands to be treated as a respected full-fledged member of the European Union, NATO and the international community. Its own actions, however, d...
Andrzej Duda, who won presidential runoffs in Poland last Sunday, is expected to adopt a tougher anti-Russian stance, but political changes in the neighbouring country might slowed down because his party is now in parliamentary opposition, says Ramūnas Vilpišauskas, director of the Institute of Inte...