We meet with Ambassador Žygimantas Pavilionis on a quiet Sunday morning in the Lithuanian Embassy in Washington, D.C., for the last interview before he leaves the USA and returns to Lithuania.
Eastern Partnership
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EN.DELFI TV by the Lithuania Tribune spoke to Andreas Umland, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Euro-Atlantic Cooperation (Kyiv) at the GlobSec 2015 conference in Bratislava. Why do you think the EU is so reluctant giving the Eastern Partnership countries perspective of joining the EU, we ...
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Štefan Füle, Former European Commissioner for Eastern Partnership and Neighbourhood Policy. Do you think EU is in danger of losing Greece, we asked Mr. Fule.
The leader of Lithuania's conservatives MEP Gabrielius Landsbergis has suggested during a visit in Kiev that Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia should set up a joint battalion.
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Štefan Füle, Former European Commissioner for Eastern Partnership and Neighbourhood Policy. What are the pros and cons of Ryga Summit, we asked Mr. Füle.
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Štefan Füle, Former European Commissioner for Eastern Partnership and Neighbourhood Policy. It seems that Russians don’t really mind the sanctions as it is possible that Ukraine may collapse earlier than the sanctions against Russia takes the effect. So h...
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Štefan Füle, Former European Commissioner for Eastern Partnership and Neighbourhood Policy. What is the EU message for Ukrainian people, we asked Mr. Fule.
The Lithuania Tribune / EN.DELFI TV spoke to Štefan Füle, Former European Commissioner for Eastern Partnership and Neighbourhood Policy. We asked Mr. Fule’s opinion on why EU cannot give perspective of a membership to the present candidate-states.
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...
Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, will pay an official visit to Lithuania on 2 July.
Lithuania hopes that the European Union's refugee resettlement scheme will be voluntary and will not be restricted to only migrants coming from the south.
Georgia is disappointed with the stalling visa-free talks with the European Union (EU); however, it is fully capable of achieving the objective before the end of this year, says Lithuania's Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius.
Ambassadors do not pop up out of the blue and, for Marius Janukonis, Lithuania’s new Ambassador to Ukraine, the journey has been, he says, “a natural course of the diplomatic career”. But landing a diplomatic post in a country like Ukraine is obviously “a big challenge”, he agrees.
The European Parliament opened discussions about a report on EU-Russia relations, drafted by Lithuanian MEP Gabrielius Landsbergis, on Tuesday. Some MEPs called for separating the Russian society and the country's government while others accused Europe of expansionism.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė made her annual State of the Nation address at the Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, on Thursday. In her speech, the president mostly focused on national defence, security challenges stemming from Russia's aggressive policies, as well as emigration of working-age...
Despite the frantic attempts by some of the EU leaders to give a rosy tint to the otherwise murky picture of the EU Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, political analysts from Lithuania, Estonia and Ukraine, approached by the Lithuania Tribune, unanimously agree the EU partners with membership aspir...
President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Marshal of the Polish Senate Bogdan Borusewicz, Chairman of Ukraine's Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Groysman, and Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė, who are participating in the sixth session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of Lithuania, Poland a...
The European Union launched its Eastern Partnership programme in 2009, soon after Russia's 2008 war on Georgia. It was proposed by Poland and Sweden, with enthusiastic support from Lithuania. Russia has ever since been blaming the programme for trying to undermine its interests in the countries Mosc...
The European Union launched its Eastern Partnership programme in 2009, soon after Russia's 2008 war on Georgia. It was proposed by Poland and Sweden, with enthusiastic support from Lithuania. Russia has ever since been blaming the programme for trying to undermine its interests in the countries Mosc...
The European Union's Ambassador to Russia Vygaudas Ušackas has called for an official Russian position on the public threats made on television by Duma member Vladimir Zhirinovsky "to redeem Vilnius and Klaipėda".
