Tag: Lithuania
Scholz reaffirms Berlin’s support for the Baltic countries
After his visit to US President Biden in Washington on Monday and before a trip to Kiev and Moscow early next week, Olaf Scholz, faithful to German tradition, is discussing…
in the Baltic countries, NATO troops train in “interoperability”
It has been five years since a NATO battalion has been installed in Lithuania, but also in Poland, Estonia and Latvia to ensure the security of these countries which have…
before his visit to Washington, Scholz ready to send soldiers to the Baltic countries
The German chancellor wants to reassure the Americans. Olaf Scholz said on Sunday February 6 that Germany was ready to send additional troops to the Baltic countries, before a trip…
The scattered support of Europeans for Ukraine
Ukraine always at the center of all international negotiations. On the one hand, France and Germany who want to renew the dialogue with Russia and advocate de-escalation. On the other,…
Kaunas becomes European Capital of Culture
Kaunas is one of the three European cultural capitals in 2022. The kick-off of a year of festivities was given on Saturday evening January 22 with a sound and light…
Lithuania pleads for a reinforcement of the external borders of the EU
Many European interior ministers met in Vilnius on Friday to discuss the protection of the European Union’s borders at the call of Lithuania. The country suffered this summer a massive…
The quarrel with Beijing puts the industrialists of Lithuania under pressure
Since the announcement in July 2021 of the opening of a representation of Taiwan in Lithuania, relations have been difficult between Vilnius and Beijing. It is the industrialists who suffer…
Restrictions on freedoms, rise of populism, democracy abused in Europe?
When we look at criteria such as corruption, the independence of the judiciary or even the media, which are also conditions of democracy, the picture is not very bright on…
a child of freedom
On December 26, 1991, the USSR was officially dissolved, the end point of the dislocation of communist regimes in Eastern Europe and part of Central Asia. On the occasion of…
Fall of the USSR: on March 11, 1990, Lithuania declares its independence
In December 1991, Lithuania had already left de facto of the USSR. On March 11, 1990, the Supreme Soviet dominated by Sajudis unanimously declared independence. Margarita Seselgyte is then a…