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Irrespective of the outcome of the European elections in June, the new political cycle for 2024-2029 will present the EU with a set of acute yet long-term challenges: Russia's war against Ukraine and its broader confrontation with the West, systemic competition between China and the US, the growing fragmentation of the global economy, accelerating climate change, and the technological transformation. The decisions made by the new EU leadership may thus have consequences for the next several decades of European and Lithuanian security, prosperity, and development.

Security cooperation in the Baltic Sea region is undergoing profound internal change at the same time as the broader shifts in NATO’s strategic environment are transforming the region’s role and status in the Alliance.

The European Commission has recently presented its agenda for 2022, with plans to conclude the negotiations on key climate and digital policy initiatives and launch new cooperation projects in defence, foreign, and industrial policy 

The increasing role of Turkey in the EU’s Eastern Neighbourhood and Lithuania’s newly actualised interests in the Middle East mean that Ankara’s behaviour is becoming an increasingly important factor in the foreign policy of Vilnius.