NATO fighter jets, stationed in the Baltic states as part of the NATO air policing mission, were scrambled once last week to identify and escort military aircraft of the Russian Federation in the international airspace over the Baltic Sea.
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The decision by a consortium led by private equity funds managed by Blackstone to invest 1 billion euros into Luminor, a Scandinavian bank operating in the Baltic states, should make the US administration pay more attention to the Baltic states, and also attract more investors from this country, pol...
The US Army's Abrams tanks and Bradley infantry fighting vehicles were on Friday transported to Lithuania for training, the Lithuanian Armed Forces said.
Europe must take more responsibility for its security, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Friday before meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Vilnius.
Croatia plans to rejoin NATO's multinational battalion in Lithuania in two years' time, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said.
The Lithuanian government has asked the parliament to allow it to borrow funds to increase defense funding and thus meet NATO's 2 percent of GDP spending target.
The European security architecture needs to change, French President Emmanuel Macron declared during his latest visit to Finland. The changing world security architecture is forcing the European Union to adopt to the changing world. This is inevitable. However, the French President also called for a...
Lithuania's parliamentary parties signed on Monday an agreement on the country's defense policy for the next decade.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel is expected to meet with President Dalia Grybauskaitė and the Baltic prime ministers during her visit to Lithuania next week, the Lithuanian president's office said on Friday.
The handover ceremony of the NATO Baltic air policing mission will take place at the Lithuanian Air Force Base in Šiauliai, northern Lithuania, on Friday.
George W. Bush, the 43rd president of the United States, on Wednesday was named an honorary citizen of Vilnius.
A Belgian contingent with four F-16 fighter jets will patrol Baltic airspace from Lithuania starting September, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said.
Major Piotr Sadys was accredited as Poland's new defense attaché to Lithuania at the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defense on Wednesday, replacing Colonel Miroslaw Wojcik who has resided in Vilnius since 2015.
Lithuania might need to borrow several dozen million euros this year to increase defense funding and this way meet NATO's 2 percent GDP defense spending target.
Vilnius politicians are mulling making former American President George W. Bush an honorary citizen of the Lithuanian capital.
