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Online platform Vinted will appeal the €2,3 m privacy fine it received from the Lithuanian data protection authority yesterday, a company spokesperson told Euronews today (4 July). The platform, on which users can sell second hand clothes, shoes and bags, was ordered to pay the penalty as the Lithuanian watchdog found that the company breached the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) by failing to give users the right to erase their data. The investigation was forwarded to Vilnius after the French and the Polish privacy regulators received local complaints. Under the GDPR, the regula...
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Lithuanian and Polish defence ministers called for the "internationalisation" of the protection of the EU and NATO's eastern border as they toured a stretch of the border fence with Belarus near Vilnius on Monday. During an official visit of the Polish deputy PM and defence minister to Vilnius, Lithuania's Defence Minister Laurynas Kasčiūnas told reporters that the national border defence system would require an estimated €600 million over a decade. His Polish counterpart, Wladislaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, promised to raise the issue at next week's NATO summit in Washington. According to Kosiniak-Kam...
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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...
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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...
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As Vladimir Putin continues his assault on Ukraine, Russian aggression is tightening its grip on the region. Not only has the war in Ukraine dragged on, but Russia is deepening military integration with neighbouring Belarus, deploying dozens of tactical nuclear weapons on Belarusian soil. Nearby Poland is now bracing for further Russian mobilisation, calling on a “heavy brigade” of European Union defences in response. Putin’s dream of a new Russian Empire is not to be taken lightly. But an aggressive Russia is hardly the only obstacle to peace and prosperity in the region. Lukashenko’s regime ...
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Lithuania is holding a presidential election on Sunday at a time when Russian gains on the battlefield in Ukraine are fueling greater fears across all of Europe about Moscow's intentions, particularly in the strategically important Baltic region. The popular incumbent, Gitanas Nausėda, is favoured to win another five-year term. But eight candidates are running in all, making it unlikely that he or any other candidate can win the 50% of the votes needed to win outright on Sunday. In that case, a runoff would be held two weeks later on 26 May. The president's main tasks in Lithuania's political ...
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Belarus claimed on Thursday it had intercepted attempted drone strikes by Lithuania on its territory – but Lithuanian authorities have dismissed the claim as a fiction. Ivan Tertel, head of the Belarusian Committee for State Security (KGB), said: "the KGB, in cooperation with colleagues from other structures, has recently carried out a number of acute security measures, which made it possible to prevent attacks by combat drones from the territory of Lithuania on objects in Minsk and its suburbs." He did not present evidence for the claim or give any details, claiming "radicals" in Lithuania an...
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