Baltic Sea region

The new shift of United States troops is coming to Lithuania in February with ten tanks.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that the country should introduce universal military conscription during the government's current term of office.

Lithuania should allocate more than 2 percent of its gross domestic product for its national defence, the country's new defence minister said on Tuesday.

Lithuania's parliament on Tuesday adopted a resolution on improvement of parliamentary diplomacy, calling for revival of relations with the neighboring Poland.

Russia has exited recession and now all the Baltic Sea region (BSR) economies are expanding, but growth is expected to be modest. The global rise of populism and anti-establishment moods, although promising fiscal expansion that may boost short-term growth, builds up risks of protectionism with a ne...

In early October, the Estonian media reported that Russia was transporting, by ship, Iskander short-range ballistic missiles from Ust Luga (Leningrad Oblast) to the Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad (ERR, October 7). This news sparked a wave of commentary by politicians and experts in the Baltic Sea reg...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday assured the Baltic states that the most important thing for the Alliance was to deter, not to copy Russian actions amid the rising tensions between the West and Moscow over its increased military activity in the Baltic Sea region.

Mid-range Norwegian advanced surface to air missile systems (NASAMS) are to be delivered to Lithuania by 2020, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said on Friday.

Europe must continue its sanctions on Russia amid the Russian military action in Syria and Ukraine, as well as the demonstration of nuclear-capable weaponry in the Baltic Sea region, Finland's President Sauli Niinisto said at a meeting with his Lithuanian counterpart, Dalia Grybauskaitė, on Tuesday.

Lithuania is contributing to the creation of the UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force, which will consist of around 10,000 troops.

Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that the agreement to switch on transponders in warplanes above the Baltic Sea will not solve safety issues, if Russian fighter-jets continue performing their dangerous manoeuvres. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking ...

A representative of the Polish power transmission operator PSE has dismissed criticism about limiting of the Lithuania-Poland electricity link and the statements about Poland impeding the synchronization of the Baltic power networks with Western Europe. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subs...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday that the Allied nations would agree to establish an international battalion in each of the Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, as well as in Poland. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

NATO General Salvatore Farina has said that dangerous Russian conduct in the Baltic Sea region was unlikely to lead to a large-scale military conflict.

The representatives of seven Baltic countries have gathered in Vilnius to create a new unified tourism project to link all the UNESCO World Heritage sites across the Baltic.

Counter-terrorism efforts and the migration crisis will reduce the international community's attention on the security situation in Eastern Europe and will have a negative effect upon Lithuania, according to Lithuanian intelligence assessments.

Vilnius took third place at the FDI Intelligence European Cities and Regions of the Future Awards in the category of medium-sized European cities based on attractiveness for foreign direct investment and economic development.

Russia’s provocative actions and NATO's build up in the Baltic Sea region may lead to confrontations, the Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces General Micael Byden has warned.

Lithuanian leaders and their counterparts from the Baltic states and Poland are on Monday officially inaugurating the interconnections LitPol Link and NordBalt, lauded as key projects to usher the country into the new era of energy independence.