A Russian court on Tuesday demanded a bond of almost $3 million dollars for the release of a Lithuanian trawler seized by border guards to the alarm of the EU, a lawyer for the vessel's owner said.
A Russian court on Tuesday demanded a bond of almost $3 million dollars for the release of a Lithuanian trawler seized by border guards to the alarm of the EU, a lawyer for the vessel's owner said.
The EU urged Russia on Tuesday to release a Lithuanian fishing boat seized in international waters, in the latest incident involving Baltic states and their former Soviet master.
Lithuania, increasingly jittery over Russia's foreign policy, can look forward to a security boost when it joins the eurozone next year, the EU's senior official on economic issues said Thursday.
Lithuania and fellow Baltic states Estonia and Latvia are the countries most vulnerable to a Russian block on EU food exports imposed in retaliation for Western sanctions, the EBRD bank said.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite on Saturday warned Russia was practically at war with Europe and urged tougher sanctions against Moscow.
Lithuania will receive its first euro banknotes from Germany when the Baltic state becomes the 19th member of the eurozone on January 1, the central bank said on Thursday.
The European Union may turn to the World Trade Organisation over Moscow's ban on its food and agricultural products amid the Ukraine crisis, the EU's ambassador to Russia said Thursday.
Lithuania won the EU's final green light this week to join the eurozone in 2015, completing a Baltic embrace of Europe's checkered single currency as security concerns over Russia nudge other reluctant eastern candidates towards adoption.
Lithuania on Thursday destroyed thousands of pigs after confirming its first cases of deadly African swine fever, days after it was detected on farms in EU neighbours Latvia and Poland.
Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite said Tuesday the European Union was compromising its values to protect trade ties with Russia, pointing to a French warship agreement with Moscow.
Lithuania said Tuesday it would oppose Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini's bid to become European Union foreign policy chief, reflecting concerns in eastern Europe over the bloc's policy on Russia.
Russian energy giant Gazprom on Thursday put its stake in two Lithuanian energy companies up for sale, just days after regulators in Vilnius fined it for blocking competition in the Baltic state.
Lithuania passed a key hurdle on Wednesday to adopting the euro, paving the way to become the 19th member of the eurozone in 2015 and confirm its place within the heart of Europe.
Lithuania passed a key hurdle to adopting the euro on Wednesday, winning the backing of the European Commission to become the 19th state to use the single currency from next year.
Results of the 2014 European elections - Lithuania
Lithuania on Thursday banned the sale of energy drinks to anyone under 18, citing health concerns, and said it hopes others in the European Union will follow suit.
Lithuania on Thursday moved one step closer to joining the eurozone, as concerns over Soviet-era master Moscow give it all the more reason to firmly root itself in the West.
Standing in the shadow of a massive, grey former KGB building in a busy Vilnius street, Lithuanian pensioner Rimantas Gucas worries history could repeat itself if the West fails to stop Russia from absorbing Ukraine's Crimean peninsula.
A "dangerous" Russia is trying to redraw Europe's borders with its actions in Ukraine, but the continent's leaders still don't understand this, the president of ex-Soviet Lithuania said upon arrival for an EU summit on Thursday.
Russia's tightened grip on Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula of Crimea may turn into a "frozen conflict", the Lithuanian president warned on Monday.