The outcome of the ongoing talks in Minsk might be “bad” or “very bad”, says Laurynas Kasčiūnas, an analyst from the Vilnius-based Eastern Europe Studies Centre, commenting on the talks on the situation in eastern Ukraine that continue in the Belarusian capital of Minsk on Thursday. […]
Visaginas has undergone a radical transition from rapid growth under Soviet planning and mono-functional industrial development to dramatic shrinkage under a multilateral and multi-scalar competitive determination of resources and workplaces. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has left for Brussels to attend an informal meeting of the European Council, the presidential press service said. […]
“The first thing I noticed was how much people smile here, and they are so friendly!” laughed Ieva Januškevičiūtė. Januškevičiūtė, along with Rokas Zaveckas, are in Colorado this week for the FIS World Alpine Ski Championships at Vail-Beaver Creek. […]
The United States and Lithuania have agreed to sign a new agreement on defence cooperation as early as this year, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said on Thursday. […]
As four-way peace talks over the conflict in Ukraine have been ongoing in Minsk, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius believes the main task is to reach an agreement on the control of the international border between Ukraine and Russia. […]
Lithuania has risen in the annual World Press Freedom Index by one notch to the 31st position among 180 countries. […]
On Wednesday, the European Parliament decided to reopen the investigation into alleged CIA prisons in different European countries. MEPs have also urged the member-states to investigate the related suspicions and prosecute those responsible. […]
In a report published on 11 February, the Council of Europe Anti-Corruption Group (GRECO) acknowledges the comprehensive legal and institutional framework developed by Lithuania to prevent and fight corruption among members of parliament, judges and prosecutors. It also stresses that the authorities now need to shift their focus to ensuring that the legal norms are well understood and properly enforced, GRECO said. […]
Lithuanian young actress Aistė Diržiūtė is among a small group of recognized up-and-coming European performers who were honoured this year at the prestigious Berlinale Palast with the European Shooting Stars Award, the Lithuanian Film Centre informs. […]
The Lithuanian-Polish-Ukrainian joint military brigade, currently being established, might hold the first joint military exercises in the coming autumn, Polish Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak said in Vilnius on Wednesday. […]
Here’s a week full of recommendations of how to spend your free time in Vilnius. Music, art, gastronomy, bar-hopping, cinema and sports – but please, don’t try to experience everything at the same time. […]
Lithuania’s Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius has once again called upon the World Bank’s president to upgrade the status of the three Baltic states in this institution from emerging to developed countries. […]
On 12 January, the president of France signed a decree under which Lithuania’s Deputy Seimas Speaker, Chair of the Committee on European Affairs, Social Democrat MP Gediminas Kirkilas has been appointed as an officier of the Legion of Honour. […]
Lithuania is considering to close its embassy in Belgium, parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Benediktas Juodka said on Wednesday. […]
According to a Eurobarometer survey, 85 percent of internet users in the European Union believe that the risk of becoming a victim of cybercrime is growing (a 9-percent increase compared with the survey from 2013). […]
The Lithuanian government‘s aim to reset relations with Russia failed, says Benediktas Juodka, chairman of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the country should seek stronger US and NATO presence in Lithuania and closer NATO ties with Ukraine. […]
Lithuania, which formally joined the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) in early February, will transfer the first 65.44-million-euro tranche of paid-in capital on Wednesday, a week after the Cabinet gave the green light for the payment. […]
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