Eastern Europe

Expected, yet very impressive. These words come to one’s mind when evaluating results of the parliamentary elections in Poland. After eight years in opposition, the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party came back to power thunderously.

On 2 November in Vilnius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius welcomed the participants of the roundtable discussion Transatlantic Renewal and thanked them for their effort to develop the vision of a free and united Europe, Lithuania's MFA reports.

Ekonomikos augimas kitais metais Lenkijoje ir Baltijos šalyse paspartės, Ukrainos ūkis galiausiai turėtų pereiti į plėtros stadiją, o Rusija vis dar neišbris iš nuosmukio, teigia SEB grupės analitikai trečiadienį Stokholme paskelbtoje Rytų Europos šalių ekonomikos apžvalgoje „Eastern European Outloo...

I am brown, but I am not one of them or of you. I am on neither side, and honestly I don’t even care to take sides. But I am caught in the cross-fire, I had three incidents of cars trying to run me over in just the last 30 days.

Despite objections from some Central and Eastern European countries, the European Union's interior ministers on Tuesday voted in support of the plan to share 120,000 refugees.

Lithuanian Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis is on Tuesday going to Brussels to attend a meeting of EU ministers where they will try to reach an agreement on the relocation of 160,000 refugees who have come to Europe.

While the refugee and migrant crisis is an existential problem for Europe, it is also a huge opportunity. The way it is handled will critically impact not only the future direction of Europe, but also its identity - the European ethos - economics, demographics and indeed (don't be scared!) culture. ...

Former Secretary General of NATO Anders Fogh Rasmussen expressed the view to the Ukrainian news site APOSTROF that NATO would be ready to repel any possible military attack from Russia against the Baltic states.

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...

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.

The current refugee and illegal immigration crisis in European Union received multiple opinions and positions. Mismanagement can be easily seen in the current situation. One of the most noticeable parts of it is a clash of interests inside the EU itself. The reluctance of the Eastern part of EU to c...

EN.DELFI TV by the Lithuania Tribune spoke to Anton Shekhovtsov, Visiting Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute (UK), Research Associate at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation (Ukraine). We spoke about how some European nations, Germany and France in particular, think Ukraine is to blame fo...

EN.DELFI TV by the Lithuania Tribune spoke to Anton Shekhovtsov, Visiting Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute (UK), Research Associate at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation (Ukraine). We spoke about how the EU wasn‘t expecting any new members at present. Is there a cause for this? And is...

On 23-26 July 2015, the “Europe Lab” Forum in Lithuania brought together around 80 young professionals aged between 25 and 35 from Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Sweden, Ukraine, and other countries.

The fourth Eastern Partnership Summit was held in Riga on 21-22 May 2015. The joint Declaration of the Riga Summit did not reaffirm either the European perspective of the Eastern European Partnership countries consistently demonstrating the best performance or the political support to Georgia and Uk...

Lithuania says to have received the NATO supreme commander's pledge to seek that training in Eastern Europe takes place "without major intervals". However, no specific decisions on the so-called Baltic brigade have been made yet.

The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Mr Thomas Countryman, Assistant Secretary, from the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation. Edward Lucas, an expert on Russia and the Baltic region, said this recently ‘We could have a sharp security crisis this fa...

American media recently reported that the United States was planning to deploy heavy weaponry in Eastern Europe and the Baltics, including Lithuania. Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius and Minister of Defence Juozas Olekas have confirmed that they are familiar with the plans. Will the move further e...

President Vladimir Putin says Russia will add more than 40 intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear arsenal in 2015.

Intensive preparations for the deployment of US weaponry in Lithuania are underway and American experts have already been in the country to evaluate the situation, says Valdemaras Sarapinas, chief adviser to the Lithuanian president on national security.