Across Europe, a wave of migrants from war-stricken parts of the world has, since the beginning of the 2015 refugee crisis, washed over national borders. Resulting demographic change has inflamed vigorous debate about the extent to which borders s...
In my previous article (EU Gas Import Infrastructure – why more is good and why looking at annual utilisation figures alone is wrong) I explained why looking at annual utilisation figures was misleading when looking at usage of imp...
Over the past year I have been surprised at the discussion regarding gas import infrastructure to the EU. Many have argued that Europe does not need more import pipelines. The arguments often take the following form: current pipelines are not full...
VILNIUS - Nowadays, remote customer support provided by the bank staff during routine self-service operations isa good practice. Fast-paced telecommunication development, requiring for the video communication, provides for financial Institutions t...
OXFORD - A large majority of European Economic Area (EEA) countries saw net fiscal benefits from EU immigration (people born in one EU country and living in another) between 2004 and 2015, the first major cross-national analysis has shown.
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RIGA - Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Lithuania and Estonia are more keen to invest in development than Latvian companies, according to the Baltic Business Outlook published by SEB Banka.
In Latvia, 36 percent of S...
With new Saeima (Latvian Parliament) elections slated for Oct. 6 this year, Latvia’s political parties are gearing up although no big changes are expected in the country with a new ruling coalition in power. So far only three parties have ov...
VILNIUS - Since 2017, amendments to the law of the Republic of Lithuania “On the Legal Status of Aliens” have come into force. Despite the fact that new immigration rules have established preferential terms for technological start-ups ...
VILNIUS - Hotels and other tourism accommodation establishments in Lithuania last year attracted more guests than those in Latvia and Estonia, however, the biggest growth was reported in Latvia, figures from the EU statistics office Eurostat showe...
TALLINN – According to calculations by the FinEst Link project investigating the feasibility of the planned Tallinn-Helsinki tunnel, the annual number of passengers between the cities will increase to 23 million people by 2050, while cargo c... On January 16, 2017, a Boeing 747-400 belonging to ACT Airlines en route from Hong Kong to Istanbul was scheduled to land at Manas International Airport in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Due to thick fog and a possible mistake by the aircraft’s pilot,...
VILNIUS - Moderate political parties' success in the Dutch parliamentary election shows that Europe may be able to withstand rising far-right populism, but it is too early to say that tensions have subsided, Lithuanian political analysts said ...
Those who follow the ups and downs of Ukraine’s economy cannot help but ask one obvious question — what is the “cause” behind all this “effect”? While the obvious disconnect between the economic data and market ...
Volodymyr Serhijchuk is a professor of history at the Kyiv State University and one of the more eminent researchers in Soviet archives. In terms of publishing his findings, he is perhaps the most prolific of the researchers.
One of the to...
Last week, the Russian State Duma of the sixth convocation held its last plenary session, breaking up ahead of the Sept. 18 parliamentary election. The end of this legislature was fitting: its very last act was to adopt a draconian package introdu... The new Latvian military strategy document, State Defence Concept, approved by the government of Latvia at the end of May, already went through initial circles within the Parliament and is waiting for the final vote as soon as possible. Estonia is...
Ambassador Kurt Volker is a leading expert in US foreign and national security policy with some 30 years of experience working in government, academia, and in the private sector. He has worked on European political and security issues under five U...
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-Please, step aside and wait for a security officer.
-Excuse me, is there a problem?
-Yes.
This was the beginning of my four-day detention at the Israeli Ben Gurion Airport on April 20, 2016. I...
During his official visit to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, Geert Bourgeois, Minister-President of the government of Flanders, noted the longstanding relation between Flanders and the Baltic States.
Bourgeois’ official pr...
Today, two Kazakhstans exist in the world. One of them is the real Kazakhstan that peacefully lives and works, as before. The second is a virtual one that presents a distorted and sometimes grotesque view.
I know the first of them, becaus...
This article was first published on heritage.org, and The Baltic Times was given republishing rights.
Militarily speaking, the three Baltic States—Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania—are isolated from other NATO mem...
Today, on the 11 January 2016, at 13.00, the Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA) with the support of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and the Group of the European People's Party will host a public discussion “Latvian External ...
RIGA - The Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA) with the support of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is hosting a public discussion “Security in the Heart of Asia. Central Asia – NATO Partnership: Challenges a...
This past June, the Obama administration announced it will deploy heavy weaponry–M1 Abrams tanks, Bradley fighting vehicles, and howitzers–in Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and the three Baltic States. This is the first time the U.S. and N...
On September 4, 2015, the Latvian Institute of International Affairs hosted a panel discussion on European security to mark the release of the institute’s latest publication, “Riga Dialogue: Towards a Shared Security Environment.&rdquo...
On May 18 at the Astor Hotel in Riga (Z. Meierovica Blvd. 10), the Latvian Institute of International Affairs (LIIA) organizes a public discussion and a presentation of the book “Different Faces of ‘Soft Power’: The Baltic S... RIGA - RTU Design Factory recently opened in Riga, with the purpose of creating a link between inspired students and start-ups. Whether to find the composition of a everlasting ink for tattooers or to develop a vertical wind turbine that increases...
The backbone of tomorrow’s Internet may have a remarkable Latvian touch. The Latvian presidency’s proposal on net neutrality challenges the fundamental principle of equal access to all content and applications on the Internet.
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The 1980s were divided into two five-year periods in Russia, one black, one white. First there were the throes of Soviet power played out to the accompaniment of an extraordinary carnival of underground art: from the Necrorealist film ge...
I purposefully chose a title for my piece to evoke the notorious phrase from 1949 by the then US Secretary of Defense, James Forrestal: "The Russians are coming. The Russians are coming. They’re right around. I’ve seen Russian sol...
