The European Commission has not yet taken a decision on Kaliningrad transit sanctions, Lithuanian MEP Petras Austrevicius has said.
“On June 30, European Commission officials, in response to my request to discuss the Kaliningrad transit issue in the EP Committee on Foreign Affairs, confirmed that there was currently no final decision on the matter,” he wrote on Facebook.
“This is a very important message, because sometimes one has the impression that everything has already been decided and there is no possibility to establish a better, more appropriate position for Lithuania,” he added. “The Lithuanian authorities still have every opportunity to achieve the best result”.
Lithuania is currently awaiting clarifications from Brussels on Kaliningrad transit sanctions, which the country began enforcing in June. Vilnius maintains that any concessions to Moscow would send a wrong signal, but officials in Berlin and Brussels are allegedly worried bout a military escalation. (LRT/Business World Magazine)