Latvia must earmark budget funds to strengthen its eastern border, President Egils Levits said in an interview with Riga TV24 channel on Wednesday. Commenting on the Baltic presidents’ stance on eastern neighbors – Belarus and Russia, Levits said that Belarus is currently using migrants as a weapon against Lithuania, whichContinue Reading
A Kaunas-based company that is linked to Russia has breached EU sanctions and supplied equipment to the construction of power plants in the Russian-annexed peninsular of Crimea, according to Rūta Juknevičiūtė, LRT Investigation Team, Mikhail Maglov, Russian anti-corruption website Scanner project, Ivanna Trutnenko and US broadcaster RFE/RL. In the KaunasContinue Reading
“The existing organization of the Schengen area is unique and one of the greatest achievements of the European Union, which has been allowing for people’s free travel in the Schengen area without control at the internal borders,” the author of the report, Slovenian Socialist MEP Tanja Fajon, recognizes the agreementContinue Reading
Finns Party vice-chair and Member of Parliament Riikka Purra has announced her intention to run for leadership of the party. “I feel a strong and deep sense of duty and if so many Finns Party members are willing to trust me, I will put forward my candidacy,” Purra said ofContinue Reading
Latvian Health Minister Daniels Pavļuts (For Development/For) explained in a government press conference that in warehouses in Latvia, there are enough vaccines against Covid-19, so it was decided to donate Astra Zeneca vaccines to the five countries. «We can win the fight against this pandemic together and in full solidarityContinue Reading
Evelina Gudzinskaite, director of the department, says it now takes three weeks to process an asylum request and the period will get longer due to the fact that over one hundred new migrants a day have been arriving in Lithuania in recent days. “Processing itself will take longer and theyContinue Reading
The pace of inoculating people with the first shot of vaccine has stabilized over the past month – differences in daily vaccination figures are minute. Minister of Health and Labor Tanel Kiik (Center) said that the pace remains stable because of two primary factors and that even the currently sedentaryContinue Reading
The Covid-19 pandemic is over in Norway, according to one of the doctors leading the response against coronavirus in the rich Scandinavian country. Preben Aavitsland, chief physician in the infection control division at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, tweeted on Sunday a graph showing Norway with its lowest levelContinue Reading
The prime ministers of the Baltic States have released a joint statement on the occasion of Europe Day, LETA was informed by Latvian Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins’ press secretary Sandris Sabajevs. ”On the occasion of the Europe Day we underline the importance of this particular date for the celebration ofContinue Reading
The Baltic and Nordic countries, which are united by common history, similar values and way of thinking, must work together to implement the European Green Deal, Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins (New Unity) said in his address to the Nordic-Baltic business forum Wednesday. In Karins’ words, this must be done because,Continue Reading