Defence
Month: April 2015
Culture
Belt believed to belong to Grand Duke Vytautas on display in Vilnius
Segments of a belt, believed to be worn by Grand Duke of Lithuania Vytautas, go on display at the Grand Dukes Palace in Vilnius. […]
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Defence
Defence
MEP suggests writing into Constitution how much Lithuania must spend on defence
Member of the European Parliament Petras Auštrevičius has raised the idea of including Lithuania’s commitment to spend 2 percent of GDP on defence into the Constitution. […]
Society
Vilnius to host conference on equal opportunities
The Office of Equal Opportunities Ombudsman, National Equality and Diversity Forum, the Committee on Human Rights of the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania and the European Information Office of the Seimas organize the Human Rights Conference on “Equal Opportunities Policy in Europe and in Lithuania: Current Challenges and Future Perspectives”, the European Information Office of the Seimas reports. […]
European Union
No fast-track solutions in Greece, Lithuanian finance minister says
Lithuania’s Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius does not expect any fast-track solutions to be found in negotiations between the European Union (EU) and Athens on Greece’s financing, which would help the country avoid a debt default. […]
Economy
Lithuanian politicians find reorganization of Estonian-owned biofuel company suspicious
Prosecutors say that plans by Bionovus, an Icor-controlled biofuel supplier, to merge with its Estonian-registered owner and cease operations will have no impact on their investigation into the company’s deals, but some lawyers say that this would make it more difficult to gather documents needed for the probe. […]
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Baltic states the line Russia will not dare to cross?
Norman M. Naimark, professor at Stanford University, is one of the most authoritative experts on Central and Eastern Europe in the United States whose research interests include the region’s modern history, genocides and ethnic cleansings that happened here. […]
Politics
Lithuanian liberals initiating binding referendum on dual citizenship
The Liberal Movement political group of the Lithuanian Seimas proposed holding a binding referendum on dual citizenship alongside general elections next October. […]
Energy
Seimas deputy speaker wants Poland back in NPP project
Seimas Deputy Speaker Gediminas Kirkilas wants to include Poland in the planned construction of Visaginas nuclear power plant (NPP). […]
Defence
President Grybauskaitė: Lithuania needs to be united in wake of security threats
Lithuania, as a small nation, needs to unite all forces, including politicians and journalists, on security issues in the wake of existing threats, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
Opinion
Opinion: Stress-testing welfare states
I would like to present an innovative way of seeing how the welfare state can mitigate wide-spread socio-economic risks and measure individual vulnerability to poverty. This will help address the issue of whether we are living in a society of risk and anxiety or whether the welfare state, with its social protection system, can mitigate these risks and safeguard people from falling into poverty. […]
Politics
Lithuania’s conservatives to elect new chairperson
On 17-19 April, members of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) will be electing a new chairperson of the party. The conservatives will cast secret ballots in direct vote in the party’s branches all across Lithuania. […]
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Minister Linkevičius: Only OSCE can monitor ceasefire in Ukraine
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, Linas Linkevičius, says that the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) is the only organisation able to at least partially observe the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Therefore the OSCE must be granted access to hotspots of the most intense fighting. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian investors invited to “Make in India”
India invited Lithuanian companies to take advantage of new and exciting opportunities for investment, at a “Make in India” roadshow organised by Embassy of India and Honorary Consul of India in Vilnius, Wing Commander Rajinder Chaudhary, in partnership with Confederation of Industrialists of Lithuania in Vilnius, on April 13. […]
Society
Lithuanian PM: Rescuers of Jews deserve more respect and attention
Rescuers of Jews deserve more respect and attention, Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius Thursday said at a ceremony at the government’s building to honour and award Righteous Among Nations. […]
European Union
Russia won’t divide Europe – Steinmeier in Vilnius
Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has expressed certitude in Vilnius that Russia will not succeed in dividing the European Union (EU) amid the fear that Moscow may lift the embargo of food products from the countries that are friendlier towards the Kremlin. […]
Economy
Further measures for sustainable growth are necessary, Lithuania’s central bank chief says
Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania, Vitas Vasiliauskas, begins his visit in Washington, DC, where he will attend the meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on 16-18 April. At these meetings, central bank governors and finance ministers will discuss measures for accelerating global economic recovery, the Bank of Lithuania reports. […]
Society
“Mentally unstable” man in bomb hoax outside Lithuanian president’s palace
The man who threatened to explode a bomb outside the Lithuanian President’s Office on Wednesday evening is mentally unstable, Vilnius police chief Kęstutis Lančinskas said. […]