Europe in 2014: Year of the Mediterranean at a glance
What will bring us the EU in 2014? I would note it will be less of a global economy and more of a domestic issues linked to security and justice. […]
Procès-verbal of Lithuanian EU Presidency 2013
With Lithuanian EU Presidency micros and curtains tuning down now is a moment to look back from a birds fly at this European venture of politics, technocracy and art at […]
Embarking on EU Eastern Partnership of Values
It is true that comprehensively holistic approach requires an observation of matters behind the structures and policies of the states. This concern not only economic fundamentals, being spotted in times […]
Diagnosis for Europe
Last week heavy-weight EU think-tank, Friends of Europe, has gathered a wide spectrum of acknowledged EU speakers, thinkers and officials, with an aim of diagnosing a state of Europe, which seems is still in trouble, but […]
Sons and daughters at the Tower
A note to remember fourteen victims. The ones who stood against soviet tanks and lost their lives in defending our freedom on the night of 13 January 1991 at the […]
Baltic euro introduction amid financial crisis
In the midst of euro crisis, the idea of Eurozone enlargement is alive, gathering speed and in fact has never been abandoned. After a sequence of accessions (Slovenia in 2007, […]
Changing axis in EU budget negotiations
With years passing the EU budget negotiations do not change much. The rhetoric remains more or less the same, focused on EU expenditure around one per cent of EU GDP […]
Baltic enigma
Mr Richard Koo, the chef economist at Nomura Research institute, in his latest publication has made an argument that in responding to current financial crisis, and by discovering that macroeconomic […]
75 to Tomas Venclova
Tomas Venclova, a Lithuanian poet, scholar and author, has reached 75 years. During the cold war he emigrated to the United States, where he resides until now and where he […]
European summit as expected
Conditions not yet fulfilled for direct banking recapitalisation and European Council President Herman van Rompuy still has to explain his ideas on deeper economic and monetary integration. The European Council […]
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