Eastern Partnership

The foreign ministers of the three Baltic countries and Germany are meeting in the Lithuanian seaside resort of Palanga on Friday to discuss EU and security issues.

Lithuania has no reasons to change its political stance on Russia, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Monday.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is inviting the foreign minister and several ambassadors to discuss the country's relations with Russia and other Eastern countries.

Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius is in Ireland on a working visit, which will include meetings with Ireland's President Michael D. Higgins and Foreign Affairs and Trade Minister Simon Coveney.

All of Europe is concerned about the Belarusian nuclear power plant project in Astravyets, which constantly comes under severe criticism from Lithuania due to its safety standards, says the European Commission's President Jean-Claude Juncker, adding that Brussels would keep a close eye on the situat...

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė attending the Eastern Partnership summit in Brussels had a bilateral meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May on Friday.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that Ukraine needs to be more persistent in carrying out reforms rather than in demanding a EU membership prospect.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko does not participate in Friday's Eastern Partnership summit in Brussels because of Moscow's decisions.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė is Thursday leaving for Brussels to attend the European Union's (EU) Eastern Partnership summit that should set guidelines for the organization's relationship with the six Eastern neighbours.

In the lead-up to the European Union's Eastern Partnership summit, officials in Brussels hail improving relations with Belarus, but promise Lithuania that they will keep up pressure on Minsk to ensure the safety and security of its Astravyets nuclear power plant.

"The summit in Brussels should be forward-looking, injecting new dynamism providing a clear political vision for the future of our Eastern Partnership. Differentiation is key. As our resources are limited, the principle of ‘more for more and less for less’ should be implemented. We should focus our ...

Belarus' opposition activists are skeptical about Brussels' decision to invite the country's authoritarian president, Alexander Lukashenko, to the so-called Eastern Partnership summit in late November.

The European Union's (EU) financial plan for Ukraine, which is informally titled as the new Marshall Plan, has become a European initiative thanks to Lithuania, says Ukraine's Ambassador to Vilnius Volodymyr Yatsenkivski.