Lithuania
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Lithuania
Nurses go Norway
20 December 20111Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius -
25 November 2011PresseuropVeidas
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Railways
Greater European network on track
20 October 2011PresseuropLa Vanguardia -
Lithuania
Basketball, a question of independence
7 September 2011Libération Paris -
Lithuania-Poland
School strike suspended, tensions remain
5 September 2011PresseuropPolska The Times -
1991-2011
A Baltic triumph
19 August 2011IQ The Economist Vilnius -
Lithuania-Austria
Release of KGB officer creates chill
19 July 2011PresseuropVilniaus diena -
27 June 2011PresseuropPolitiken
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Theatre
New talent comes from the East
27 May 2011Polityka Warsaw -
Russia-EU
Who will open this window on Europe?
10 May 20111Polityka Warsaw -
Lithuania
Rubbish champions
29 April 2011Veidas Vilnius -
Labour market
Work in Germany? Yes, maybe
29 April 20111Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Frankfurt -
27 April 20111PresseuropLietuvos Rytas
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Central Europe
The wilted charms of the euro
4 April 2011Presseurop -
Poland-Lithuania
Polish-Lithuanian education feud
31 March 2011PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
Nuclear energy
Chernobyl to Fukushima – media gets it wrong
17 March 2011Postimees Tallinn -
Baltic states
Where minorites must hold their tongue
6 January 20114De Volkskrant Amsterdam -
Pharmaceutical industry
European guinea pigs
23 December 2010PresseuropVanity Fair -
Baltic states
Following Estonia’s lead
13 December 2010Atgimimas Vilnius -
Poland / Lithuania
Why Warsaw and Vilnius are at loggerheads
4 November 2010Rzeczpospolita Warsaw -
Black market
Lithuania's taxes go up in smoke
29 September 20101Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius -
Stability pact
That figures
18 August 2010PresseuropPúblico -
12 August 2010PresseuropDie Tageszeitung
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15 July 20102PresseuropPolska The Times
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Baltic States and the crisis (3)
Lithuania, no country for old men
22 April 2010The New York Times New York -
Baltic states and the crisis (1)
Running for the euro
14 April 2010Dziennik Gazeta Prawna Warsaw -
University
Schools feel cost of crisis
30 March 2010Adevărul Bucharest -
Baltic Sea
The big cleanup begins
11 February 2010PresseuropHelsingin Sanomat -
21 January 20102Rzeczpospolita Warsaw
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Lithuania
CIA’s little helpers
23 December 2009PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
Central and Eastern Europe
World Bank's forsees debt gloom
4 December 2009PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
EU-Russia
Moscow’s charm offensive
27 November 2009Presseurop -
Tourism
Kosmopolitan Kaliningrad
19 November 2009Cafebabel.com Paris -
EU-Russia
Sweden pushed onto Baltic chessboard
18 November 2009PresseuropSvenska Dagbladet -
Lithuania
You say Waldemar, I say Valdemar
9 November 2009PresseuropRzeczpospolita -
6 November 2009PresseuropDagens Nyheter
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Minorities
Letter opens Poland-Lithuania rift
25 September 2009PresseuropGazeta Wyborcza -
21 August 2009Revista 22 Bucharest
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Turkey
Go East
19 August 2009The Guardian London -
Regional cooperation
Baltic Blues
17 August 2009Polityka Warsaw -
Financial Crisis
Surprising change for developing countries
13 August 2009PresseuropCapital -
Central and Eastern Europe
Lean years are back
12 August 2009Gandul Bucharest -
Gas pipeline
Russians pressurise Poland into gas deal
10 August 2009PresseuropPolska The Times -
TOWER OF BABEL
Short in height but walking tall
7 August 20091Cafebabel.com Paris -
3 August 2009PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna
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Belarus
A university in exile
31 July 20091Cafebabel.com Paris -
ex-soviet bloc
Dear Barack, just a reminder...
16 July 20091Gazeta Wyborcza Warsaw -
Homosexuality
Lithuanian TiT declares war on gays
13 July 2009PresseuropDziennik Gazeta Prawna -
18 June 2009Eesti Päevaleht Tallinn
Faced with the economic crisis, Lithuanian medical staff are increasingly leaving to work in Norway, where salaries are much higher. Although they do not become exiles, they do have to contend with a permanent schedule of return journeys between Oslo and Vilnius. 
The particular fervour gripping Lithuania, which is currently hosting EuroBasket 2011, is part of a long tradition in a Baltic country that has expressed its identity on the basketball court since Soviet times. 
In August 1991, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia declared their independence from a collapsing USSR. Despite a few hiccups along the way, twenty years on they have definitively turned the page on Communism and come back to their roots in Europe. 
Europe has lost six great names in the performing arts, but their succession is assured by a new generation of directors, most of whom hail from Central and Eastern Europe. 
Residents of a region that considers itself to be a “window on Europe,” the population of the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, which is located between Poland and Lithuania, want Moscow to establish closer links with the EU. In particular, they are hoping for an end to a requirement for visas for European travel: an “iron curtain” that separates them from Western modernity. 
Each year, every Lithuanian throws out 500 kilos of household waste and “forgets” to sort the recyclables. Slowly, though, attitudes are starting to change. 
On 1 May, the doors will open wide for Poles, Czechs and other eastern Europeans now free to work in Germany. But no one expects a stampede. Quite the opposite: German companies will have to woo the new guest workers ardently and assiduously. 
Europe’s sovereign debt crisis has dampened enthusiasm for the single currency in most of the countries of Central Europe. Today, only the Baltic States are still eager to join the Eurozone, writes "Rzeczpospolita".
In 1986, Estonians were Soviet citizens and had no idea what was going on at Chernobyl. Today they are members of the European Union, but whether they are better informed is questionable, writes the daily Postimees. 
The linguistic rights of the sizeable Russian and Polish minorities in the three former Soviet republics, which joined the EU in 2004, are hardly recognised. A Dutch journalist deplores governmental intransigence on the issue of languages. 
On 1st January, Estonia will become the first Baltic state to join the euro zone — a development which an Estonian political scientist believes will offer a strong motivation to neighbouring Latvia and Lithuania to follow in its footsteps and also encourage more cooperation between the three countries.
With growing bitterness, Poland believes that its partnership with Lithuania is one built on empty promises. At the heart of the debate – the rights of the Polish minority in the Baltic state. 
The crisis may have brought Lithuania to its knees, but business is booming on the black market. Armed with his calculator and a sense of adventure, Marius Jokubaitis set out to discover just how much tax revenue petrol and cigarette smugglers are diverting from the state. 
Severely affected by the economic crisis, no other country, apart from Ireland, has effected more severe public spending cuts than Lithuania. While austerity has yet to elicit the same level of protest as seen in Greece or in Spain, it has had a tremendous personal and social cost. 
The worst is over for the Baltic States. For the first time since the beginning of the financial crisis, Moody's has upped its ratings outlooks for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia: a sign that the three republics will soon be able to join the eurozone.
The education sector in Europe has been hard hit by cuts in budgets, personnel and investment. Some universities, e.g. in the UK, might even have to be closed down. And some leading institutions could soon lose their top international rankings.
One cigarette in every ten sold in the European Union has been illegally imported. To combat the booming business in smuggled tobacco from Eastern Europe and Asia, Brussels has decided to tighten security on the EU's external borders. Poland is in the front line of the war on the cigarette smugglers.
After tensions triggered by the collapse of the Soviet Union and post-9/11, the hour has come for rapprochement between Europe and Russia. Favoured by the United States’ relative unconcern and the absence of major present-day flashpoints between the two powers, their reconciliation is being approached pragmatically – and in many areas on the Kremlin’s initiative.
Sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland, the once forbidding Russian exclave of Kaliningrad now benefits from federal money and oil revenues. Cafebabel.com reports from a city that now offers that familiar mix of Moscow trash and flash. 
The 23rd August is "European Day of Rememberance for the Victims of Nazism and Stalinism", to condemn totalitarianism. A noble cause perhaps, but one which has provoked controversy in Russia, where Stalin is still a national hero. They point out that Russia in fact saved many lives threatened by Nazism. Yet the Russians remain cagey about their Soviet Union archives, a stumbling block for ex-Soviet states to really understand their totalitarian pasts. 
The EU rose out of the ashes of war. Perhaps, with a little patience and pragmatism, a Middle Eastern Union is not such a distant fantasy. And Turkey, as East-West linchpin, is well-placed to be that unifying force. 
Several years ago, the Baltic became the EU’s internal sea. But what kind of a sea is it? A shallow, closed, poor, one that divides rather than connects. On economic as well as environmental issues, the future of the Baltic states is bound in cooperation with neighbouring countries and with the European Union. 
The financial crisis in Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic states, which until recently were posting record growth rates, has forced governments to slash budgets, starting with public service salaries — and cabinet ministers are leading the way. 
Sarkozy and Berlusconi are short men. But in certain European countries, a lack of height is not necessarily a handicap, as these expressions show. 
After being closed down by the goverment in 2004, Minsk's European Humanities University is now based in Lithuania, with some help from the EU. Its aim is to educate the elite that will run the democratic Belarus of the future. 
Leading politicians from Central and Eastern Europe have sent an open letter to the US president urging him to pursue "a firm and principled policy towards Russia". At stake is America's credibility in a region it wholeheartedly embraced in the 90's, but which now, according to the signatories, it takes for granted. 
In 2011, Tallinn becomes European capital of culture. Without money and above all without any ideas, all the Estonian capital has been doing is to keep a jealous on fellow Baltic capital Vilnius, in Lithuania, which has organised this event successfully.