Linas Jegelevicius

Baltic Times

Contributor since: 18 Jul 2018

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• International Payments Are Becoming A Geopolitical Battleground

  Published 27 August 2018 | viewed 3,294 times

  The German foreign minister is calling for an end to the American monopoly over what is essentially a European payment system. And it’s all about…

• Forget Turkey, This Is The Biggest Threat To European Finance

  Published 16 August 2018 | viewed 4,506 times

  The tumble of the Turkish lira sounded the alarms for investors across the planet, and the repercussions will be heard all over. Yet the real…

• France Could Lose Billions In EU Trade Route Redirection

  Published 15 August 2018 | viewed 13,190 times

  In the onging Brexit debacle creating a lack of clarity over the future of European trade relations, France may end up getting cut out of…

• EU Companies Struggle To Pick Sides In U.S.-Iran Dispute

  Published 13 August 2018 | viewed 2,130 times

  As European companies get caught in the crossfire between Brussels and Washington over Iran, the EU’s attempt to punish companies who give in to Trump…

• Baltics Want to Pull The Plug On Russian Power

  Published 10 August 2018 | viewed 7,710 times

  Into the 29th year as independent states, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia still have not managed to ride themselves of Russia in one key area: the…

• Ride-Sharing: The Next Hotbed For Cybercrime?

  Published 10 August 2018 | viewed 11,288 times

  Even though the Baltic States unanimously agree that Russia poses menace to them, they’re allowing Yandex.Taxi--a popular Uber-like ride-sharing Russian company--to operate in their territories,…

• What Is Vanadium And Why Did Its Price Just Skyrocket?

  Published 09 August 2018 | viewed 14,662 times

  When one thinks of battery metals, the mind naturally drifts to lithium, cobalt, copper and nickel, but attention is slowly shifting to vanadium because prices…

• Greece: The EU’s Weakest Link

  Published 09 August 2018 | viewed 9,866 times

  With Athens looking to regain its economic independence, leaving the multibillion euro EU bailout program, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has pressured eurozone governments to…

• Economic Growth Slows In The UK And EU

  Published 08 August 2018 | viewed 3,591 times

  Amid fears of escalating global trade wars, the European Union’s statistics agency Eurostat has registered a tangible slowdown in the first half of the year,…

• Time To Buy A Lada? Russian Auto Sales Are Booming

  Published 07 August 2018 | viewed 7,539 times

  In all likelihood, you have not considered buying a Russian car. But perhaps now is a good time for a change of heart, geopolitics be…

• Russia Ditches U.S. Dollar For Gold As Tensions Rise

  Published 26 July 2018 | viewed 29,053 times

  Russia‘s U.S. dollar reserves have shrunk from $96.1 billion in March to just $14.9 billion in May, according to the Russian Central Bank. Its governor,…

• VW Stockpiles Cars Over Emissions Testing Bottlenecks

  Published 25 July 2018 | viewed 9,607 times

  Germany‘s flagman automaker Volkswagen has ended up in a very unfamiliar and alarming situation: It’s on the constant lookout for immense storage space on both…

• European Union Hits Google With A $5 Billion Fine

  Published 23 July 2018 | viewed 2,049 times

  How to set the size of a fine for a market behemoth like Google? Well, consider first that you’ve finally seen a golden opportunity to…

• What Putin Really Wants From Trump

  Published 18 July 2018 | viewed 2,338 times

  Vladimir Putin typically shuns mentioning any concrete names when speaking publicly, but he made an exception to the rule at his joint conference with U.S.…