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Analyses | | Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
On 12 June, the Lithuanian parliament adopted a law prepared by the government to build an LNG terminal near Klaipeda, which is to come online by December 2014. However, the left-wing opposition and some liberal MPs were disturbed by the…
Analyses | | Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
The question as to whether the Russian Federation should assume responsibility for the occupation of the Baltic states is one of the key elements of the political dispute which prevents Moscow from normalising relations with Vilnius,…
Analyses | | Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
On 30 March a concession agreement was signed for the construction of a nuclear power plant in Visaginas in Lithuania between the Japanese-American company Hitachi and the Lithuanian intergovernmental commission dealing with concession…
Analyses | | Joanna Hyndle-Hussein, Kamil Kłysiński
On 23 March, the EU decided to extend its sanctions on Belarus. The list of 232 people banned from entering the EU was extended by a further 12 names, including two major Belarusian businessmen suspected of financially supporting the…
Analyses | | Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
On 19 March a breakthrough came in the month-long crisis in the centre-right coalition ruling in Lithuania. When the coalition was threatened with disintegration, a compromise was reached – at the initiative of President Dalia…
Analyses | | Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
Last year Lithuania signed a memorandum on co-operation with the US company Cheniere Energy, which is to guarantee gas supplies to Lithuania from 2015 at a price 30% lower than the price for which gas is bought from Gazprom.
Analyses | | Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
On 18 February approximately 75% of those who took part in the referendum rejected the proposals of the amendments to the constitution which would establish Russian as the second state language along with Latvian and the second official…
Analyses | | Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
On 8 February, the European Court of Auditors published an audit report on the shut down nuclear power plants in Bulgaria (Kozloduy), Lithuania (Ignalina) and Slovakia (Bohunice). It revealed a significant delay in the EU-funded process…
Analyses | | Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
The centre-right government is beginning the process of separating of the sale and transmission of gas, in accordance with the guidelines of the EU's Third Energy Package; this requires the entities involved in the production,…
Analyses | | Joanna Hyndle-Hussein
Lithuania’s Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius and energy minister Arvydas Sekmokas announced that the possible withdrawal of one partner would not jeopardise the implementation of this strategic project for Lithuania. They expressed the…