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Lithuania was the first EU country to stop Russian gas imports with immediate effect as a response to the war in Ukraine. The gas terminal Independence, constructed as a ship, allows Lithuania to import liquified natural gas.
Denmark and the rest of the Nordics have had strong links to all three Baltic states, including Lithuania, since independence in 1991. Hans Brask has worked with Baltic Sea cooperation for years, first as head of the Baltic Development Forum think-tank where he organised a range of summits on the region’s development together with the Nordic Council of Ministers secretariat.
Businesses, governments and NGOs met to discuss how to get the most out of the region’s potential.
Since 2019, Brask has served as Denmark’s ambassador to Lithuania. Before that, he spent four years serving as Denmark’s ambassador to Latvia. In the summer of 2023, Hans Brask will return to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Copenhagen.
The CBSS was set up on a Danish-German initiative in 1992 in Copenhagen as a regional political forum. It includes the 11 states that border the Baltic Sea, and at the time of its founding, it also included the European Commission.
Since 1998, the CBSS has had a permanent secretariat in Stockholm.
During Denmark’s CBSS Presidency in 2020, the countries decided to revitalise their cooperation on issues like climate change.
Russia and Belarus left the CBSS in 2022, following the invasion of Ukraine.
Source: The Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs et al
A small, open economy that has gone through major social and economic change after regaining independence in 1991, as a result of comprehensive reforms in nearly all areas of society.
The country has experienced nearly uninterrupted economic growth since independence, only broken by a short but severe slow-down in 2009 during the financial crisis.
Unemployment has been falling steadily in the past ten years and stood at less than 7 per cent in 2022. Inflation is very high right now as a result of the war in Ukraine and the energy crisis.
Source: The Danish embassy in Lithuania
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