Politics
Lithuanian municipal elections proposed on 1 March
Elections to Lithuania’s municipal councils are proposed to be held on 1 March 2015. […]
Month: September 2014
Energy
Lithuanian PM expects new shale gas taxation rules to be adopted this autumn
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius expects that the government and the parliament will approve new rules for taxing shale gas exploration and production this autumn. He also hopes the rules will be favourable for investors and will open the way for launching a new tender for a shale gas production license. […]
Uncategorized
Baltic states agree to coordinate steps on domestic security
Ministers of interior affairs of the three Baltic states have agreed to set up a joint committee to coordinate issues of home security and public peace. […]
European Union
EU entertains idea to buy out Mistral warships from France
Europe’s right wing will suggest member-states of the European Union (EU) to buy out the Mistral warships under construction in France commissioned by Russia, Lithuanian MEP Gabrielius Landsbergis said on Tuesday. […]
Defence
NATO chief warns Moscow: No more stealth invasions
On Monday, NATO Commander Gen. Philip Breedlove had a not-so-subtle message for Russia: it will consider stealth and unofficial invasions to be a trigger for war, the Daily Beast reports. […]
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Society
Calls to ban Russian TV channels amidst Moscow’s “information war” against Lithuania
How to counter intensifying Russian propaganda campaigns that have been targeting Lithuania lately? This was the topic of the discussion on LRT political debate programme “The Right to Know” on Monday night. […]
Sports
Lithuanians shoot off against the French
Lithuania has walked away from the FIBA World Cup empty handed after falling short to France 95:93 in the Bronze medal match. […]
Society
Soviet soldiers’ cemetery in Lithuania targeted in pro-Ukrainian vandalism incident
A cemetery of Soviet soldiers in Akmenė, northwestern Lithuania, has been vandalized, the local police informed on Tuesday. Tombstones at the cemetery have been sprayed with colours of the Ukrainian national flag. […]
Defence
NATO’s new secretary general determined to implement decisions in Baltics
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius met on Tuesday with the appointed NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg. Linkevičius says he has been reassured the decisions made during the recent NATO summit regarding the strengthening of military capabilities in the Baltic states will be implemented. […]
European Union
Ukrainian and EU parliaments ratify Association Agreement
On Tuesday, Kiev ratified the historic association agreement between Ukraine and the European Union. […]
Society
European Union
Notorious Russian MP Zhirinovsky misidentified in EU sanctions documents
Notorious Russian politician Vladimir Zhirinovsky, despite his active support of Russia‘s military intervention in Ukraine and annexation of Crimea, has not been banned from freely travelling throughout the European Union because of what seems a clerical error, DELFI has discovered. […]
Sports
Crowd welcomes Lithuanian basketball team in Vilnius
A huge crowd welcomed Lithuania’s men’s national basketball outside Vilnius Town Hall on Monday night after it flew back from Spain where the team came in fourth in the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup. […]
Politics
Sense or sensibility: which Lithuanian parties exchange argument for emotion?
The Conservative, Labour and Order and Justice parties of Lithuania employ emotionally charged rhetoric to built their image, while the Social Democrats and the Liberals use a more rational sort of discourse, claim political experts interviewed by the portal LRT.lt. […]
European Union
EP to consider lifting Lithuanian MEP’s immunity
President of the European Parliament (EP) Martin Schulz informed before Monday’s plenary session in Strasbourg that the EP has received a request from the Lithuanian authorities to lift the immunity of Member of the European Parliament Viktor Uspaskich, who is a member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe. […]
Opinion
Opinion: NATO promises to Russia? Which promises?
Alea iacta est. NATO has agreed on the formation of a special ‘spearhead force’ (officially: Very High Readiness Joint Task Force) that, if necessary, will offer the eastern member states (additional) protection against Russia’s imperialist whims. After twenty years of peace keeping operations and crisis management on the Balkans and in exotic places further away, the alliance will refocus on its original task, as anchored in Article 5 of the Washington Treaty: collective defence. […]
Economy
Lithuanian government and entrepreneurs set up expert group to search for new export markets
Lithuanian government representatives and the Industrialists Confederation are setting up an expert group which will be tasked with search for new exports markets. […]
Uncategorized
Minister Linkevičius: I cannot join optimists cheering peace treaty in Ukraine
Baltic States are safe because they are with NATO. Russia will not try to threaten member states of the alliance because that would be “totally insane”, believes Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania condemns killing of British aid worker captured in Syria
Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly condemned the killing of a humanitarian aid worker from the United Kingdom, David Haines, stating that the crimes cannot undermine the efforts against terrorism. […]