Taiwan-Lithuania cooperation contributes to global prosperity : Tsai focustaiwan.tw - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from focustaiwan.tw Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
In today’s news from the Capitals
:
TALLINN
Estonia is “seriously” considering granting Russian opposition leader and Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny asylum in case he is either banished or voluntarily leaves Russia, Estonian Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets said on Tuesday.
The anti-corruption campaigner, who is on hunger strike and whose allies say his life is in danger, is being treated at a prison hospital about 180km east of Moscow, amid reports of mistreatment and deteriorating health. Read more.
///
EU PRESIDENCY
Portuguese presidency to give MEPs a new eco-scheme offer in CAP talks. The Portuguese presidency of the EU Council aims to meet the European Parliament halfway by increasing up to 25% the eco-scheme ring-fencing, in a bid to break the deadlock on the green architecture of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) reform. Read the full story.
Stonewalled by Minsk, US ambassador to Belarus will reside in Vilnius
5
Julie Fisher (centre) and Svetlana Tikhanovskaya. / D. Umbrasas/LRT
Julie Fisher, the US ambassador to Belarus, will temporarily reside in Vilnius as she does not have a visa to travel to Minsk, Lithuanian Deputy Foreign Minister Mantas Adomėnas said on Wednesday.
The US has formally asked the Lithuanian government to accredit the ambassador to Lithuania, Adomėnas told BNS, adding that the government has yet to formulate its formal consent . This makes us extremely happy, he said, adding that Lithuania received the US request on Monday.
The US embassy to Lithuania confirmed to BNS that Belarus had not yet issued a visa to Fisher, but it did not comment on whether she would reside in Vilnius.