Section: The Baltic Course (Latvia)
Lithuanian president: Nord Stream 2 pipeline is a geopolitical project
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite says that the planned second gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea is not a commercial project, but a geopolitical one aimed at harming Ukraine and dividing Europe, and that she and the leaders another seven EU member countries have signed a letter to European Commission President...
Latvian, Lithuanian, Ukrainian nationals detained in Spain for producing drugs
The police in Spain arrested five people, including from Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine, after seizing thousands of packages of rave drugs described as more toxic than cocaine or marijuana, reported LETA/BNS, referring to The Daily Star. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Idle production plant to cost KVV Liepajas Metalurgs EUR 0.5 mln monthly
Even with the production plant standing idle, KVV Liepajas Metalurgs metallurgy company has to reckon with regular monthly expenses of EUR 0.5 million, the plant’s Ukrainian owners, KVV Group, said, informs LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...
EU extends sanctions on individuals over Ukraine to September
The European Union on March 10th extended by six months until September sanctions against Russian and Ukrainian individuals over the conflict in Ukraine, it said in a statement, cites LETA/AFP. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Ukrainians evaluating possibility of preserving KVV Liepajas Metalurgs
Ukraine’s KVV Group is evaluating the possibility of suspending the operations of joint-stock metallurgical company KVV Liepajas Metalurgs and preserving the factory is the Cabinet of Ministers does not make any constructive decisions during its March 15 meeting, the KVV Group told LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Ukrainian company begins producing cheese in former DK Daugava production plant
The Ukrainian-owned dairy company Latvian Dairy Ltd. has begun producing various types of cheese for export in the former DK Daugava milk-processing plant in Jaunjelgava County, and is currently employing approximately 60 persons, the company’s representatives told LETA. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Lithuania, 4 other states want EU to make “Savchenko List”
Lithuania and four other countries have suggested that the European Union (EU) should make a so-called Nadiya Savchenko list, with Russian officials on the list imposed sanctions for prosecution of the Ukrainian pilot, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevicius confirmed BNS on Wednesday, informs LETA. …read more Source: The...
Nearly half asylum applicants in Estonia are from Ukraine
Ukrainian nationals made up nearly half of the applicants for asylum in Estonia in 2015, it appears from figures released by Eurostat, cites LETA/BNS. …read more Source: The Baltic...
Poland-Lithuania airspace block, with partners, seeks to render services to whole EU
Lithuania’s and Poland’s air traffic control services providers Oro Navigacija and PANSA, which have created the Baltic Functional Airspace Block (Baltic FAB), a common Poland-Lithuania airspace block, have teamed up with partners from Ukraine and Spain to bid in a tender to develop a centralized system for the European Union’s...
Latvian MFA: Ukraine must persist with reforms
The international community must continue to call upon Ukraine’s political elite to persist in the reform process, which is already underway despite the internal challenges, Zanda Kalnina-Lukasevica (Unity), the Latvian Foreign Ministry’s Parliamentary Secretary, said during the meeting with a delegation from the Romanian parliament,...
