Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Lithuania" produced 144 items.
| 1. Big, strong and yet still bitter and feeling neglected | February 8, 2012 |
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Poland has achieved a remarkable amount in recent years, but its sense of outrage is undimmed. Poland has been wiped off the map twice, partitioned, invaded, and shunted... | |
| 2. Embattled envoy | January 19, 2012 |
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Lithuania's foreign minister enjoys a scrap. One would think that, for a small country integrated into the heavyweight machinery of alliances such as the EU and NATO, foreign... |
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| 3. The Russian bear returns to its weasel ways over Baltic history | December 8, 2011 |
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Heard the one about the fair elections conducted in the Second World War in which Stalinist loyalists won? A ‘let-bygones-be-bygones' approach to history has the advantage... | |
| 4. After 20 years | September 15, 2011 |
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The foreign ministers of the Baltic states reflect on 20 years of independence and on their countries' evolving foreign policy. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the... | |
| 5. An arrest that highlights tensions and ties with Russia | July 28, 2011 |
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Why a row over Austria's release of a Soviet commander is more than a dusty historical question. Who bears responsibility now for the crimes of the Soviet past? This is the... | |
| 6. The false economies of central and eastern Europe | May 12, 2011 |
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Europe can no longer free-ride on the back of US taxpayers, a lesson NATO's eastern member states should learn now. Defence spending in the new member states of NATO is... | |
| 7. Schools of (unreasonable) thought on educational reform | March 31, 2011 |
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A legacy of clashes between Poland and Lithuania is clouding sensible discussion about languages in schools. It seems inexplicable. Poland, the economic, military and... | |
| 8. The history curtains | January 20, 2011 |
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Why did Poland send an ostentatiously low-level delegation to the anniversary of the 1991 Soviet massacre in Lithuania? The big difference between ‘western' and... | |
| 9. Winner takes all? | November 11, 2010 |
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Lithuania, Belarus and Russia are competing to be the Baltic's energy power. Over the past year, a high-stakes nuclear race has begun in the Baltic region, with the winner... |
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| 10. The narcissism of small Baltic differences | October 21, 2010 |
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They should be the best of friends, so why are relations between Poles and Lithuanians “the worst in Europe”? In a rational world, Poland and Lithuania would be best... |
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| 11. Latvia's not-so-gloomy election may prove doubters wrong | September 30, 2010 |
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It may have problems, but Latvia's government and its civil servants have plenty to be proud of. Outsiders love to worry about Latvia, seeing it as the weak link in the... |
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| 12. History buff | September 9, 2010 |
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Lithuania's prime minister has steely determination, and very poor popularity ratings. It takes a certain kind of individual to spend the summer holiday bike-riding and... |
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| 13. A man of steel and genial cunning who bridged two eras | July 1, 2010 |
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Algirdas Brazauskas, a communist who led Lithuania out of the Soviet Union, has died aged 77. Lithuania's experience of Soviet rule was a little different to that of its... | |
| 14. Exiled envoy | April 1, 2010 |
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Vygaudas Ušackas, the new EU special representative to Afghanistan, is the latest diplomat to be exiled abroad by
Lithuania's president. The joke in Vilnius is that if... |
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| 15. Lithuania is discovering the value of pragmatism | March 25, 2010 |
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It would be good for Europe if that could now be translated into better relations with Poland. Lithuania thinks big. In the days of the late lamented Grand Duchy, it... | |
| 16. European studies at a university in exile | February 18, 2010 |
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Howa life in exile is affecting the European Humanities University, a Belarusian university now re-established in Lithuania. When the European Humanities University (EHU)... |
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| 17. Ušackas must be considered as EU's Afghanistan envoy | February 4, 2010 |
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There is no evidence that Lithuania's former foreign minister knew about a secret detention facility operated by the CIA in Lithuania. In an article you published about... |
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| 18. A rocky reputation | February 4, 2010 |
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Awkward moments in Lithuania. Vygaudas Ušackas was Lithuania's foreign minister until last month, when he resigned after being criticised by Dalia Grybauskaite, the... |
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| 19. Ashton to name new Afghanistan envoy | January 29, 2010 |
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Former Lithuanian foreign minister is a favourite for post that combines EU and Commission roles. Vygaudas Ušackas, who was forced to resign as Lithuania's foreign minister... |
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| 20. Lithuania's foreign minister resigns | January 21, 2010 |
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Clash with president precipitates Vygaudas Ušackas's decision. Vygaudas Ušackas, Lithuania's foreign minister, has resigned after the country's president, Dalia... |
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