RIGA - The United States has no better ally than the European Union (EU), Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics (Unity) said in an interview with LNT commercial TV channel this morning. The minister said that perhaps thanks to social networks, US and EU official...
VILNIUS – Lithuanian border guards detained four illegal immigrants from Vietnam and a Latvian citizen who was driving them on Saturday, the Lithuanian State Border Guard Service said. Lithuanian officers were carrying out random checks on the road Marijampole-Suwalki near the Lithuanian-Polish border when they saw a Saab 9-5 with Latvian car numbers. The driver pretended to not have seen uniformed officers and their clearly-expressed demand to stop and drove by at sl...
RIGA - Before a decision is made on increasing defense spending even more, all NATO member states must first reach the two percent of GDP spending level, Finance Minister Dana Reizniece-Ozola told LETA. During this week's NATO Summit, U.S. President Donald Trump said that NATO member states must reach defense spending levels of four percent of GDP, not just the current recommended level of two percent of GDP. Reizniece-Ozola said that before such a de...
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