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On Wednesday Lithuania's Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius is leaving for a formal visit to Paris, were he will participate in a high-level Ministerial Council Meeting of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has congratulated King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands on the King's Day, a national holiday in the country.

Former Dutch EU commissioner and former leader of the liberal VVD party Frits Bolkestein thinks that Europe, the United States and Russia should organize a second Yalta conference to discuss a settlement in Ukraine and even the sovereignty of the Baltic states.

The Baltic and Benelux countries agree on the need to expand the existing sanctions against Russia by including more people into the blacklist. They also backed the introduction of new sectoral sanctions, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linkevičius said on Wednesday after meeting with his Bal...

Lithuania officially ended over six-month long period of command of NATO Mine Counter-Measures Group ONE (SNMCMG1). On January 22, Commander Giedrius Premeneckas (Lithuanian Navy) handed over command of SNMCMG1 to Commander Peter A.J. Bergen Henegouwen (Royal Netherlands Navy) at Den Helder naval ba...

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has met with Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Gijsbert Hendrik Christiaan Van Der Lingen, who starts his diplomatic service in Lithuania.

Additional NATO forces sent to the Baltic states earlier this year will remain in 2015 but the implementation of new security measures might take longer than initially expected, diplomats say.

In cooperation with colleagues from other countries, Lithuanian police officers detained 40 Lithuanians during a five-day operation in the Netherlands, the Lithuanian Police Department said on Wednesday.

Air Lituanica, the Lithuanian airline company, and airBaltic will co-operate on the Vilnius-Amsterdam route. Flights from Vilnius International Airport will be operated eight times a week, i.e., daily, with two flights - morning and evening - on Sunday, Air Lituanica informs.

The Russian warplane that caused NATO fighter-jets to take off from the Lithuanian Air Force base on Wednesday was flying next to the Baltic states but did not violate the Lithuanian air-space, the Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday evening in a message that updated a report from the Dutc...

Lithuania's Defense Minister Juozas Olekas is visiting Norway on Wednesday to meet with his Nordic and Baltic colleagues for a discussion of initiative to step up the Nordic and Baltic anti-crisis capacities.

Norway is the most prosperous country, according to the 2014 Legatum Prosperity Index, published on Monday by the British research centre Legatum Institute, while Lithuania is number 42 among 142 ranked nations.

The website of the Russian Embassy in Sweden says: "Russia is closer than it seems..."

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė accepted letters of credence from the Ambassador of the Netherlands to Lithuania, Gijsbert Hendrik Christiaan van der Lingen, the presidential press service informs.

Dutch experts released a report on the Malaysia Airlines MH17 passenger jet crash on Tuesday. According to the report, the plane crashed after being hit by "numerous objects" that "pierced the plane at high speed".

According to calculations carried out by the Netherlands-based ING Group, restrictions imposed by Russia on food imports from the European Union may cost the EU USD 6.7 billion (EUR 5.0 billion) per year, RBC Daily reports.

In an interview in Eesti Päevaleht over the weekend, largely focusing on EU-Russia ties and developments in transport, outgoing European Commissioner for Transport Siim Kallas said that although Russia acts like it doesn't need the EU or Western banks, the country would not be able to go it alone.