Third Energy Package

I have been dealing with European security for more than thirty years, as an activist during the Cold War, as a journalist, and at think-tanks1.

Russian intervention in Ukraine has refocused the attention on the traditional military and security challenges, but the factors that made it possible for today's Russian attempts to revise the European security architecture should not be forgotten. Primarily, this was the result of the processes in...

There is a long-held view that the Russian gas supply to Lithuania is unlikely to be cut-off because Lithuania serves as a gas transit state to the Russian territory of Kaliningrad. In other words, the same gas pipeline feeding Lithuania, also supplies the Russian enclave. According to this argument...

Gazprom’s decision to sell its Lithuanian assets could be due to the German energy group E.ON’s exit and the EU Third Energy package requirements, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Tuesday, adding that the Russian group’s withdrawal means that Lithuania will be the first of the three Balti...