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Conservative parties in three EU Baltic countries have prevailed in the votes cast for the European Parliament, preliminary results showed on Monday. In Latvia and Lithuania the respective governing party came out on top, while in Estonia an opposition force won. Eurosceptic parties received only modest support overall in the countries that all border Russia. In Estonia, the conservative Isamaa party won two seats, one more than in the previous European elections in 2019, while the liberal Reform Party of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas lost one of its seats in the EU legislature. Like the co-gover...
DPA International
Conservative parties in three EU Baltic countries have prevailed in the votes cast for the European Parliament, preliminary results showed on Monday. In Latvia and Lithuania the respective governing party came out on top, while in Estonia an opposition force won. Eurosceptic parties received only modest support overall in the countries that all border Russia. In Estonia, the conservative Isamaa party won two seats, one more than in the previous European elections in 2019, while the liberal Reform Party of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas lost one of its seats in the EU legislature. Like the co-gover...
DPA Breaking News
Conservative parties in three EU Baltic countries have prevailed in the votes cast for the European Parliament, preliminary results showed on Monday. In Latvia and Lithuania the respective governing party came out on top, while in Estonia an opposition force won. Eurosceptic parties received only modest support overall in the countries that all border Russia. In Estonia, the conservative Isamaa party won two seats, one more than in the previous European elections in 2019, while the liberal Reform Party of Prime Minister Kaja Kallas lost one of its seats in the EU legislature. Like the co-gover...
DPA
Lithuania's President Gitanas Nausėda has claimed victory in Sunday's run-off election after a campaign dominated by European security concerns. "Your vote gives me a mandate. This is a strong mandate. The credit of confidence that you have granted me is big and, without a doubt, it obliges me to act," he said in his victory speech. Lithuania has been a staunch ally of Ukraine since the 2022 Russian invasion and Nausėda indicated that that support would continue into his new presidential term. According to a poll carried out by ELTA/Baltijos Tyrimai earlier this year, more than half of Lithuan...
Euronews (English)
The defense ministers of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia met in the Lithuanian town of Palanga on May 22 and agreed on their key goals ahead of the upcoming NATO summit, including an allied commitment to invest at least 2.5% of GDP in defense. The allied countries have been ramping up their defense spending after the outbreak of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, with 18 NATO members expected to hit the current 2% mark in 2024. Estonia's Hanno Pevkur, Lithuania's Laurynas Kasciunas, and Latvia's Andris Spruds also stressed their continued support for Ukraine in the face of Russian aggress...
Kyiv Independent
The defense ministers of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia met in the Lithuanian town of Palanga on May 22 and agreed on their key goals ahead of the upcoming NATO summit, including an allied commitment to invest at least 2.5% of GDP in defense. The allied countries have been ramping up their defense spending after the outbreak of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, with 18 NATO members expected to hit the current 2% mark in 2024. Estonia's Hanno Pevkur, Lithuania's Laurynas Kasciunas, and Latvia's Andris Spruds also stressed their continued support for Ukraine in the face of Russian aggress...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
The defense ministers of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia met in the Lithuanian town of Palanga on May 22 and agreed on their key goals ahead of the upcoming NATO summit, including an allied commitment to invest at least 2.5% of GDP in defense. The allied countries have been ramping up their defense spending after the outbreak of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine, with 18 NATO members expected to hit the current 2% mark in 2024. Estonia's Hanno Pevkur, Lithuania's Laurynas Kasciunas, and Latvia's Andris Spruds also stressed their continued support for Ukraine in the face of Russian aggress...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
Leaders around the Baltic Sea reacted warily on Wednesday to reports that Russia could revise the borders of its territorial waters in the region, with Lithuania's foreign minister calling it an "obvious escalation” that must be met with an "appropriately firm response.” In a draft proposal reported by some Russian media, Russia's Defence Ministry suggests updating the coordinates used to measure the strip of territorial waters off its mainland coast and that of its islands in the Baltic Sea. The existing coordinates were approved in 1985, the ministry says; adding they were “based on small-sc...
Euronews (English)
Russia has unilaterally moved to change the maritime border with Lithuania and Finland in the Baltic Sea, according to the decree published on the Russian government's website. Lithuania and Finland have not yet reacted to Russia's decision toward the maritime border, nor has Russia's unilateral decision been recognized internationally. Russia intends to[appropriate inland](https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2024/05/21/rossiya-reshila-vodnostoronnem-poryadke-sdvinut-granitsu-slitvoi-ifinlyandiei-ibaltiiskom-more-a131403) sea waters in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland and near the cities of Balt...
Kyiv Independent (CA)
Russia has unilaterally moved to change the maritime border with Lithuania and Finland in the Baltic Sea, according to the decree published on the Russian government's website. Lithuania and Finland have not yet reacted to Russia's decision toward the maritime border, nor has Russia's unilateral decision been recognized internationally. Russia intends to[appropriate inland](https://www.moscowtimes.ru/2024/05/21/rossiya-reshila-vodnostoronnem-poryadke-sdvinut-granitsu-slitvoi-ifinlyandiei-ibaltiiskom-more-a131403) sea waters in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland and near the cities of Balt...
Kyiv Independent (UK)
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