Lithuania's foreign policy dilemma

With its accession to the EU, Nato and the Schengen zone Lithuania has achieved important foreign policy goals. News portal Delfi now demands that new challenges and partners be sought for their realisation: The EU's history shows on the one hand that Germany and France have most say in the EU's policy decisions and therefore more intensive cooperation with these two countries could help Lithuania to put forward more effectively the issues that are important for it in the EU's agenda. ... On the other hand if we look at the intensive bilateral relations between these two countries and Russia in the energy sector, in commerce and investments and even on cultural exchange, Lithuania is certainly faced with a dilemma best illustrated by the planned sale of the French Mistral helicopter carriers to Russia. Another dilemma could arise with the plans for an EU economic government because on this subject Lithuania has a different stance to Germany and France."

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