Since 2013, Lithuanian State Department of Tourism is improving their strategy of tourism representation abroad. Increasing the incoming tourism from the Nordic markets, as well as raising the awareness of Lithuania and improving the image of the country among Scandinavians and Finns are three of …
Norway’s Orange Group has made a business out of sending Lithuanian, Latvian and most recently also Slovakian and Hungarian nurses to Norway and Sweden, reported bbn.ee citing news2biz LITHUANIA reported last week. The company sent 250 nurses off to Scandinavia last year and expects the …
Cameron’s speech that shook Great Britain and Europe didn’t go unnoticed in Lithuania, writes Former Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius for Delfi.lt. The most common Lithuanian reaction is a cheerful approval, especially to the part of the speech that criticizes Brussels’s sluggish bureaucracy, excessive regulations in Europe, the …
President Dalia Grybauskaite told the magazine Veidas that Lithuania’s new ruling coalition, led by PM Algirdas Butkevicius (he is now the most popular politician in Lithuania according to all the surveys of 2013), will probably not survive the entire four-year term. This is a very …
In 2009, the Swedish parliament adopted the Defence Report Bill that included the Declaration of Solidarity, a document which not only represents changing approach to security and defence of the non-aligned state, but also offers a new approach to regional security of the Baltic and …
President Dalia Grybauskaitė, currently on an official visit in Denmark, met with the young people from Lithuania who are studying in Denmark, reports lrp.lt. The President wished the young people to remain true Lithuanians: “National identity lies in our hearts, not only in symbols. May you …
The threat of Russia, the money of the Scandinavian banks, and energy are three factors that have interconnected three Baltic states, with fairly different interests, into a single geopolitical unit, veidas.lt wrote on 3 April. A quarter of a century ago, the three Baltic states …
Swedish banks see the prospects to increase Lithuania’s business funding as economy is recovering, says Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius, delfi.lt wrote on 9 February. On Thursday morning interview to the News Radio A. Kubilius said that the Swedish banks with branches in Lithuania welcome the …
When it comes to today’s dilemma of integration in the European Union, we need to develop Lithuania’s position in accordance with national interests and real possibilities. This is to avoid extremes and to follow the principle of balance, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Audronius …
Facing a factual division of the European Union into continental eurozone, dominated by France and Germany and maritime non-eurozone, led by Great Britain with some indirect support from several Scandinavian and Middle European countries, Lithuania tries balancing dangerously on two chairs, veidas.lt wrote on 30 …
Today, some academics say that the desperation of our people is also being increased by the fact that during the recent 20 years we’ve become a godforsaken place somewhere in the East near Russia, in other words – probably the worst part of the EU. …
Lithuania shares a border with four countries. For various reasons, Lithuania’s relations with all of its neighbours have deteriorated this year, Kęstutis Girnius wrote in alfa.lt on 19 December. We cannot choose our neighbours. We have the ones that were determined historically and geographically. Fate …
Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius is convinced that the Northern Baltic region should become more attractive to the German investors than the Southern Europe. “Under these circumstances, when the EU’s southern members are in a very uncertain economic situation, it would be wise to make …
Jorge Marcano | the Lithuania Tribune Read the first part of the Baltic Complexity Such situation has earned Latvia, international condemnation by the government of the Russian Federation, the Council of Europe and several international human rights organisations. As a result of this contemporary reality, …
Fredrik Rydström | The Lithuania Tribune This is indeed a good time to remember the words General Desaix uttered to Napoleon in the aftermath of the French defeat at Marengo in 1799: “The battle is lost, but there is still time to win another one”. …
Former President Valdas Adamkus says he’s surprised by the declarations that the foreign policy of Lithuania is being created from scratch, the LRT.lt reported on 11 July. “I’ m sometimes astonished by the statements that the foreign policy of Lithuania, which nearly didn’t exist at …
Fredrik Rydström | The Lithuania Tribune The term “post-soviet states” or, in a broader perspective, ”post-communist states”, has for long been applied to characterize the Eastern European states that once were imposed the dictates of Soviet Russia and, consequently, firmly entrenched within its orbit. Though …
Westinghouse is interested in the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant (VAE) because of plans to link Baltic, Nordic and Polish electricity grids, Anders Jackson, Westinghouse’s president for Europe, Middle East and Africa said to business daily Verslo Zinios daily. Westinghouse representative also indicated that the site …
Estonian investors prefer placing money in Lithuania, with their total investments in the country exceeding the ones placed in Latvia in 2010. Moreover, Estonian investments surged exactly in the first quarter, with 1 428.5 million euro invested in Lithuania and 1 179 in Latvia, reports …
Lithuanian abroad culture politics is wanted to be directed to nearest Baltic and Scandinavian countries by giving them individual financing from budget next year. Communicating is going to be started with a huge project this autumn by Lithuanian and Estonian National opera theatres tours exchange, …
