Britain will “redouble efforts to drive reform” in the European Union, British Ambassador in Vilnius David Hunt said Friday, after London failed to block the nomination of Jean-Claude Juncker for European Commission president. […]
Linas Kleiza and Martynas Andriuškevičius seemed to have gained popularity in Lithuania throughout the mid 2000s, however this hype would be shadowed on this day in 2005. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius met with Belarusian human rights activist Ales Belyatsky in Vilnius on Friday and called for the release of all political prisoners in Belarus. […]
In the late 1940s, a substitute teacher in St Justin’s High School, a Catholic grade school, was asking students about their career goals. Much to her surprise Johnny Unitas said that his ambition was to become a professional football player. […]
The European Council said on Friday that Lithuania is ready to adopt the euro in 2015. […]
Belarusian human rights activist Ales Belyatsky says he has no hard feelings towards Lithuania for providing the Belarusian authorities with information that became a pretext for his detention. […]
Recent research carried out by the Anti-Defamation League shows that 36 percent of Lithuanian adults hold anti-Semitic views. The results are worse than in Latvia or Estonia. Chairwoman of the Lithuanian Jewish community Faina Kukliansky claims she was very surprised by these results. […]
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. […]
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