Dalia Grybauskaitė
Economy

D. Grybauskaitė: the EU will owe us

Lithuanian farmers will not receive the sort of direct grants from the EU as were promised already in 2013. “This means that the EU will owe us,” Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė told LRT Radio before departing to negotiations on the EU’s new budget. However, the situation could be even worse. According to the president, if the UK will not depart the EU as planned due to political chaos, the budget, which does not satisfy Lithuania already, will decline even further. […]

Tokyo
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian PM to meet with Japanese counterpart

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is meeting with his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, in Tokyo on Friday to discuss economic and political relations. […]

Ignalina NPP
Energy

Vilnius to host discussion on funding Ignalina NPP’s decommission

Representatives of the European Parliament and European Commission are coming to Vilnius this week to see the progress of decommissioning of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant and discuss its funding beyond 2021. […]

Audrius Kamienas
Energy

Kamienas wins competition for Ignalina N-plant CEO job

Audrius Kamienas, currently acting managing director of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP), has won the competition for the top job at the facility, which is carrying out decommissioning projects worth hundreds of millions of euros. […]

Rosatom
Politics

Rosatom, MG Baltic have joint interests in Ignalina N-plant tender – Lithuania’s NSGK

Russian nuclear energy construction giant Rosatom and Lithuania’s MG Baltic business group, owned by Darius Mockus, have joint interests in the upcoming multimillion project on the construction of Ignalina nuclear plant’s disposal facility, the Lithuanian Seimas’ Committee on National Security and Defense [NSGK] states after investigating business groups’ influence on politics. […]

National Security and Defence Comittee meeting
CORPORATE

Political corruption investigation conclusions in danger: “Farmers” have their own plans

With the Seimas National Security and Defence Committee (NSGK) investigation into suspect political and business links nearing its conclusion, the Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) leader Ramūnas Karbauskis has spoken up on how the […]