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The commission receiving offers from strategic investors for the nuclear power plant building project on 3 December ended its operation without having selected a winner. One of the two offers received failed to meet the conditions, and the…
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Lithuania’s Seimas amended the citizenship act on 4 November. The new law grants individuals of Lithuanian background the right to hold double citizenship. Double citizenship is allowed on condition that one of the person’s parents is a…
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On 3 November, the Latvian parliament, which was elected at the beginning of October, approved the new government to be led by the previous prime minister, Valdis Dombrovskis.
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| Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
Although successive Lithuanian authorities have expressed negative opinions about Lukashenko's regime and supported the opposition in Belarus for years, they have on the other hand criticised the EU's policy of imposing restrictions on…
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At an international conference in Lancut held on 22 October, Romania, Bulgaria and Greece joined the project for the Via Carpatia land transit route, which will lead from Lithuania through Poland, Slovakia and Hungary, and further south…
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The centre-right Unity party, which won the parliamentary elections in Latvia, invited the Harmony Centre, a party supported by the Russian-speaking minority (approximately 35% of the population) to talk on the formation of a new…
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The Lithuanian-Belarusian intergovernmental working group developed on 7 October an agreement for the transit of Venezuelan oil to Belarus via the Lithuanian state-owned oil terminal Klaipedos nafta. This is the first effect of the co-…
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The winner of the parliamentary election held in Latvia on 2 October was the ruling centre-right party Unity whose leader, the acting prime minister, Valdis Dombrovskis, will again be entrusted with the mission of forming the government.…
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| Paweł Siarkiewicz
Several days before the parliamentary elections in Latvia, which are due to be held on 2 October, the Harmony Centre – the party supported by the Russian-speaking electorate – is leading the polls, slightly ahead of the ruling centre-right.
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On 6 September the German chancellor Angela Merkel paid a visit to Lithuania. Vilnius had hoped for quite a lot from this visit: it was expected that Germany would back Lithuania’s energy policy, particularly Lithuania’s efforts to…