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The binding obligations imposed by the European Commission on Gazprom to prevent its dominance in Central and Eastern Europe will prove pointless if a second Nord Stream gas pipeline is built, Arvydas Sekmokas, a former Lithuanian energy minister, said on Thursday.
Lithuanian Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas says that the European Commission's investigation into Gazprom's operations in Central and Eastern Europe will help to better control the Russian gas giant's behavior in the European gas market.
Russia's gas giant Gazprom may have used its dominant market position to charge higher gas prices in five Central and Eastern European countries, including Lithuania, the European Commission (EC) said after completing its anti-trust probe.
The European Commission's decision not to fine Russian gas giant Gazprom over its activity in Central and Eastern Europe would be strange, Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says.
As the European Commission plans to announce about an amicable agreement with Russian gas giant Gazprom over its activity in eastern Europe, Lithuania's former and incumbent energy ministers say the Russian company's potential commitment are no longer significant for Lithuania after it diversified i...
The European Commission will announce its decision in the upcoming days regarding a dispute with Russian gas giant Gazprom, following a six-year investigation
The gas pipeline Nord Stream 2, which is projected on the bottom of the Baltic Sea, is in essence a political project and would cause major harm to Ukraine's economy, Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said during a visit in the country.
The Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline planed on the bottom of the Baltic Sea is a geopolitical project of Russia and should not become reality, says Lithuania's Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas, stressing the need to ensure compliance to top safety standards in the construction of the Belarusian nuclea...
The cooperation contracts signed between Lithuanian energy companies with the US liquefied natural gas supplier Freeport LNG brings major political and economic benefit for Lithuania, says the country's energy expert Romas Švedas.
The European Commission should take into account the argumentation of Lithuania's government when deciding on the dispute with Russia's gas concern Gazprom, says Lithuania's Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas.
Lithuania in the late 2000s promised Latvia to support its efforts to build a liquefied natural gas terminal near Riga, but broke that promise, a former diplomat says.
The presidents of Lithuania and Poland share a negative opinion on the Russian and German plans of building a Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline on the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
Edward Lucas, the former senior editor of the Economist, visited Vilnius on January 10th — once again, should we say. He lived in Lithuania in the Nineties and is such a frequent commentator and visitor in Lithuania that he even speaks the language a bit. His work has been revolving around Russia fo...
The call from Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis to resume contacts with Russia on the political level and operations of an intergovernmental commission have made top headlines over the past few days.
Lithuanian MP Artūras Skardžius took care of renewable resources at the parliament, therefore, could have violated his public and private interests in public service, the parliament's Anti-Corruption Commission concluded, advising the Seimas to turn to the Chief Official Ethics Commission for a deci...
Darius Jauniškis, the director of the Lithuanian State Security Department (VSD), says that intelligence agencies are increasingly open to communication with the public as they cannot remain invisible services in this information age.
The Lithuanian parliament's Committee on Economics seeks to set clear-cut criteria under companies important for national security would have to notify the government about large transactions.
