The three Baltic States reached consensus on the inclusion of Vilnius into the European rail gauge Rail Baltica 2 but it does not yet guarantee that it will be implemented or that European funds will be available for the project. Professor and economist Ramūnas Vilpišauskas says that the current wording implies that the issue is simply postponed until a later date. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to the President of the Republic of Iceland, Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson, on the occasion of Iceland’s national holiday – Independence Day, Press Service of the President informed. […]
The release of Belarusian human rights activist Ales Belyatsky may have influence on Belarusian-EU relations, Belarusian Ambassador to Lithuania Alexander Korol says. […]
Euro area finance ministers, whose recommendations on Lithuania’s accession to the euro zone were finally endorsed by the European Union’s (EU) finance chiefs last week, are waiting for Lithuania to join the euro bloc, Lithuania’s Finance Minister has said. […]
I recently spoke on the phone with my friend Paulina about the allure of Europe. Paulina, a 35 year-old Polish native, moved to the United States when she was 12. She talked with me from the backseat of her cousin’s car as she travelled through the Polish countryside with her mother. She lamented that her visit had made her homesick. […]
A Lithuanian graduate from the University for the Creative Arts (UCA) in the UK has been awarded a prestigious award for her documentary film work. Žavinta Karsokaitė, who graduated from BA (Hons) Film Production in 2013, took home the Best Student Production Undergraduate Documentary Award at the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC) Learning on Screen Awards for her film Promised Bread, reports UCA Farnham. […]
On 9 June the Lithuanian Embassy in the US, together with the American Councils’ ExCel programme, hosted a goodbye party for six Lithuanian High School students that spend the 2013-2014 school year on an exchange programme in an American high school. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday passed a bill, tightening requirements for foreigners who want to reside in Lithuania. […]
The 22nd “Druskininkai Summer with M.K.Čiurlionis” international art festival hosted by the Lithuanian Musician Support Fund and Druskininkai municipality will begin on 29 June, writes Lietuvos Žinios. […]
The Governments of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia support the peace plan proposed by Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. […]
More than 300 loaves of bread will be distributed to residents and guests of Vilnius city in the Cathedral Square on 4 July. The Folklore Day of the Song Celebration 2014, which will start with the symbolic bread-bringing ritual, will fill the capital with a variety of old traditions, and flood the streets of Vilnius city with the melody of folk songs. […]
The 28th international Thomas Mann Festival “Summer of the Century” program, which offers the public a chance to meet with famous Lithuanian and European intellectuals, will be dedicated to European cultural history topics, such as the World War I political peripeteia. […]
Russia needs to cut off all contacts with Lithuania and to start imposing economic sanctions after President Dalia Grybauskaitė has compared Vladimir Putin’s policy with those of Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, says Igor Morozov, member of the Federation Council’s International Affairs Committee. […]
“Russia’s gas war waged against Ukraine is an additional tool of pressure on the whole European Union, seeking, at the same time, to sabotage the final signing of the EU–Ukraine Association Agreement,” says Petras Auštrevičius, Deputy Speaker of the Seimas and Member of the Liberal Movement Political Group, MP stated in a press release issued by this office. […]
Gazprom’s decision to sell its Lithuanian assets could be due to the German energy group E.ON’s exit and the EU Third Energy package requirements, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Tuesday, adding that the Russian group’s withdrawal means that Lithuania will be the first of the three Baltic countries to unbundle the gas sector. […]
The state-owned Public Limited Company Lietuvos paštas has signed a cooperation agreement with S.F. Express, one of the largest courier service providers in China. On the grounds of the agreement, the companies will cooperate in the field of items delivery from China to Europe, the EU member states, as well as Russia and Belarus. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma and Estonian Prime Minister Taavi Roivas signed in Tallinn on Saturday a join agreement on the Rail Baltica project and agreed on faster creation of a joint venture. […]
One of the biggest challenges for retailers ahead of the euro transition will be ensuring that they have enough cash, said a Bank of Lithuania representative at a meeting with retail owners earlier this month in Kaunas. […]
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