Relationship dossier
Ireland
Lithuania
Relationship assessment
Cooperation through EU ties and a bilateral tax treaty
Ireland toward Lithuania
+15Ireland participates in the bilateral agreement with Lithuania to avoid double taxation and prevent fiscal evasion, providing a framework for tax cooperation.
Lithuania toward Ireland
+15Lithuania participates in the bilateral agreement with Ireland to avoid double taxation and prevent fiscal evasion, providing a framework for tax cooperation.
Overall relationship
+20The relationship has a cooperative institutional setting through shared EU membership and a concrete bilateral tax treaty. These features support a generally cooperative relationship, though the scale of additional bilateral initiatives is unclear.
How to read these scores
Scores are rough judgments, not objective measurements or current verification. Directional scores describe government policy and conduct, not public opinion. The overall score is an independent estimate, never an average.
- −100
- Extreme sustained hostility
- −50
- Substantially adversarial
- 0
- Mixed or neutral, supported by knowledge
- +50
- Substantially cooperative
- +100
- Exceptionally close sustained partnership
“Not assessed” means there is no recorded score. Pair existence makes no claim about diplomatic recognition or established relations.
Relationship context
Overview
Ireland and Lithuania have a cooperative relationship within the European Union and a bilateral agreement to avoid double taxation and prevent fiscal evasion. The tax treaty provides a concrete framework for government cooperation, while the breadth and intensity of other bilateral initiatives are less clear.
Key developments
Ireland and Lithuania concluded an agreement to avoid double taxation and prevent fiscal evasion.
Major uncertainties
- The scope and implementation of bilateral cooperation beyond the tax treaty are unclear.
- The scale of ongoing government-to-government initiatives is unclear.