The European Commission calls on Lithuania to improve its tax system and deal with demographic problems, which pose challenges to the country’s growth potential. […]
Roughly 250 soldiers from the company of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Division, US Army, and the Lithuanian Grand Duke Algirdas Mechanised Infantry Battalion are training at Exercise Joint Punch at the Gaižiūnų Training Area (Pabradė) this week. […]
The Russian aggression in Ukraine has shown that countries bordering Russia may need special forces, says the Lithuanian Defence Ministry’s Political Director Vaidotas Urbelis. […]
International human rights organization Amnesty International has issued its annual report on the human rights situation around the world and is criticizing Lithuania for violations of rights of LGBTI people as well as accusing the country of “evasion, denial and delays” regarding alleged CIA prisons in the country. […]
Elective military education classes should be introduced in Lithuanian schools next year, the country’s Education and Science Minister Dainius Pavalkis says. […]
Higher early voting turnout has been reported in Lithuania’s municipal and the first direct mayoral elections this year as compared to the last local elections in 2011. […]
On 11 March, when Lithuania is celebrating its Independence Day, the Lithuanian Nationalist Youth Union and the Lithuanian Nationalist Centre will hold a march along Vilnius central street from the Cathedral to the parliament building. […]
Ambitious new-generation film director Vytautas Puidokas (26, Lithuania) has discovered a mysterious and forgotten story about a Lithuanian emigrant in the Amazon jungle in the 1980s and is keen to turn it into a movie. […]
Russia has long attempted a campaign of mainly non-military means in Latvia consisting of numerous strategies taking place both in the country and its surrounding areas. These campaigns must be viewed in light of the severe military escalation in the Baltic Sea and in Eastern Europe, says Swedish analyst Jakob Ljungman in his recent report. […]
The Italian Typhoon fighter jets, stationed in the Lithuanian northern city of Šiauliai as part of NATO’s Baltic air policing mission, were on Wednesday scrambled to accompany two Russian military transport aircraft flying over the Baltic Sea. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that although Lithuania can boast of great results in the area of women’s rights and their active participation, women are still paid less compared to men and are dramatically underrepresented in top positions. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says he does not support the idea include women into compulsory military draft. However, he says that women are always welcome in the armed service as volunteers. […]
UNESCO experts have ended discussions on the issue of constructing a bridge between mainland Lithuania and the Curonian Spit. The delegation inspected the site in response to Russia‘s complaints, the Lietuvos Žinios daily reports. […]
Some 68 percent of Lithuanians were in favour of the euro in mid-February, up by 8 percent from December, the latest poll commissioned by the central Bank of Lithuania has shown. […]
The restoration of military conscription has been proposed because it is the only quick way to form army units, says Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė. Besides, she adds, conscripts would cost less than training professionals. […]
A state of the art facility that will produce up to 4,000 lenses for eyewear every day was recently opened in Trakai, a resort town near Lithuania’s capital Vilnius. […]
The Lithuanian Government and business promotion organizations want to achieve the goal of producing 40 percent of the country’s export production in the regions by the end of this decade. Around two fifths of new businesses are sought to be established in Lithuania’s regions. […]
In response to informational pressure of the Kremlin-supported media, the Lithuanian national broadcaster LRT plans new programs for Russian-speakers in Lithuania and hopes to launch a program focused on explaining sources of propaganda and its methods of working. […]
For the 6th year in a row, Lithuania retained its leading position in Europe in terms of fibre-optic (FTTH) Internet network penetration. According to the global ranking, Lithuania comes in number 8, the annual report of the FTTH Council Europe shows. […]
Vladimir Putin will not stop by himself, he needs to be stopped. And if he has no intention of stopping, there shouldn’t even be a mention of retreating. […]
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