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European energy (comm)unity with national interes...
European energy (comm)unity with national interests
The European Union has set an ambitious energy goal, known as the 20-20-20 plan, encompassing reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent, hiking energy use from renewables by as much, and the decrease of energy consumption by 20 percent by 2020. However, with efforts often floundering, mainly due to lack of a common European energy policy and different energy interests at national levels, the EU, sticking to the plan, scrambles to make core adjustments to it, leading to a European energy (comm)unity. Effectively, the bid boils down to this: reduce Europe’s dependency on impor...  Full story...
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 Feb 02, 2012 - Russian direction is necessity, not a threat...
Russian direction is necessity, not a threat
Twenty years ago she was called the Baltics’ Amber Lady, who led Lithuania to its independence, but today  the KGB collaboration shadow haunts Kazimiera Danute Prunskiene, even though she has successfully fought off this accusation in court. Out of the Lithuanian Parliament and ousted from the chairwomanship of the Lithuanian Peasant Popular Union, in 2009, instead of enjoying life o...
 Jan 25, 2012 - Lithuania’s guru of home interior design...
Lithuania’s guru of home interior design
Eugenijus Skerstonas, 52, graduated as a specialist of economic cybernetics, which was the name for management in the Soviet era.  After the re-establishment of Lithuanian independence, he worked as an adviser on the issues of banking and bookkeeping in the government of PM Kazimira Prunskiene. Later, Skerstonas was top manager in then state-owned (later privatized and bankrupt) Lithuanian...
 Jan 19, 2012 - Researching the not far East...
Researching the not far East
Vytis Jurkonis, who studied at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science in Vilnius, is the head of the Political Analysis and Research Division at the Eastern Europe Studies Center (EESC). The spacious building of this think tank is situated on Poskos Street in the quiet and prestigious Vilnius district of Zverynas, where some foreign embassies have their residences. From ...
 Jan 11, 2012 - Will the baby be thrown out with the bath water ag...
Will the baby be thrown out with the bath water again?
Fifty-eight-year-old deputy chairman of the Lithuanian Labor Party, Arturas Paulauskas, is one of the most famous contemporary Lithuanian politicians, despite the fact that his party, the New Union, or Social Liberals, having experienced a severe blow in the 2008 Seimas elections, was left out of the Lithuanian Parliament, Seimas. Later, it was swept from the Lithuanian political map following ...
 Jan 04, 2012 - Getting down to business...
Getting down to business
Edgars Rinkevics is the current Minister of Foreign Affairs in Latvia, taking over the role when chosen by Prime Minister Valdis Dombrovskis as part of his third cabinet. Now this young politician in the upstart Zatlers’ Reform Party has the chance to lead Latvia at the international level, managing the country’s foreign policy. A good amount of this has been done from afar, on freq...
 Dec 22, 2011 - Thinking, not age, matters in Seimas...
Thinking, not age, matters in Seimas
Thirty-six-year old Vaidotas Bacevicius is one of the youngest Lithuanian parliamentarians, joining the Seimas, the Lithuanian Parliament, at 33. The Vilnius University (VU) Law and Economics graduate, holding master degrees in Constitutional Law and Business Management and Administration, after leaving his Alma Mater got involved in the preparation of over 100 law drafts, published several sci...
 Dec 15, 2011 - Closing the gap in understanding...
Closing the gap in understanding
Poland is the link between the three Baltic States and the heart of Europe. This Baltic neighbor also currently holds the EU presidency. It plays an increasingly powerful role in international politics, boosted by an economy that has virtually sailed through the ongoing global crisis. Despite this, Poland and the life of the Polish people are not very familiar themes to the Latvians. Ambassador...
 Dec 07, 2011 - Election observer discusses extinction of real me...
Election observer discusses extinction of real men
Forty-one-year-old Giedrius Drukteinis, a journalist, communication and business consultant, freelance columnist for FHM, Playboy, In Style and Business Class, an election observer in various missions in the Balkans, post-Soviet areas, Africa and Afghanistan since 1999, divides his life into two parts: his 20 years under Soviet rule, during which he published his first essay, entered Vilnius Un...

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