Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas will visit the Navy‘s headquarters in the port city of Klaipėda on Wednesday to inspect the initial results and course of the efforts to locate the missing An-2 airplane and its two pilots, the ministry said. […]
The gloomy mood ahead of the EU Eastern Partnership Summit in Riga this week is in a stark contrast with the expectations that prevailed before the similar meeting in Vilnius one and a half years ago. […]
The Lithuanian airplane An-2, which went missing on Saturday with two pilots aboard, was discovered on the bottom of the Baltic Sea on Tuesday afternoon, the Ministry of National Defence said, adding that the search for the pilots continues. […]
Valentinas Mazuronis, who recently joined the Lithuanian Labour Party, left the Euroscpetic group at the European Parliament (EP) to join the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE). […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has commented that the search and rescue operation launched in order find a missing An-2 airplane and its two pilots has revealed that Lithuanian institutions responsible for search and rescue missions fail to properly cooperate and coordinate among themselves. […]
During a formal visit to Kiev, Member of the European Parliament Petras Auštrevičius received the Vladimir the Great second degree award. The award was bestowed on the Lithuanian politician for his contribution to developing relations between the European Union and Ukraine. […]
In the first four months of 2015 the State Social Insurance Fund (Sodra) budget revenue was at its highest since its establishment and totalled EUR 945.7 million. […]
An art installation in Latvia has angered the Russian government. The Russian embassy presented Riga with a letter of protest over a crucifix that bears remarkable resemblance to Russian President Vladimir Putin. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, who is on an official visit to Kazakhstan, met on Tuesday with Prime Minister of Kazakhstan Karim Massimov and other high-ranking officials. […]
The European Parliament on Tuesday stripped Lithuanian MEP Viktor Uspaskich of his legal immunity so he can stand trial for contempt of court in Lithuania. […]
Since the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1952, energy policy has been at the centre of European legislation. According to the paper issued by the Commission in 1995, EU energy policy should be based on three pillars: sustainability, competitiveness and security of supply. […]
The ruling Social Democratic Party remains the most popular party in Lithuania with 20.7 percent of respondents in a poll saying they would vote for the party if general elections were held soon. […]
A draft declaration has been registered in the Lithuanian Seimas, calling for the status of a head of state to be granted to Vytautas Landsbergis, the country’s first post-Soviet leader and former president of the Supreme Council-Reconstitutent Seimas. […]
In an interview with The Lithuania Tribune, the new Vilnius Mayor, Remigijus Šimašius, revealed his administration’s Open Data Policy could have legal consequences for the city’s previous government headed by Artūras Zuokas. […]
Lithuania’s conservative party, the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, has suggested initiating a UN General Assembly resolution on turning to the International Court of Justice over Russia‘s annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has invited Ms Marija Elena Romeryte (Marisha Helena Romer in English) to the Presidential Palace in Vilnius on May 20. President Grybauskaitė will be presented with two original oils painted by Marisha’s grandmother, renowned Lithuanian artist Sofija Romeriene, whose life and works have been extensively documented and published. Some of her works, considered Lithuanian National Treasure, appear in the most prestigious museums of Lithuania, Poland as well as London. […]
A search mission that continued throughout the night on Tuesday have so far failed to find any traces of the An-2 airplane that went missing on Saturday afternoon over the Baltic Sea. After two and a half days of search by Lithuania’s air force and navy, assisted by Latvia, the plane and two pilots are yet to be found. […]
During a meeting of Lithuania’s Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis with US Ambassador to Lithuania Deborah McCarthy last week, bilateral contacts and possibilities of strengthening law enforcement institutions abilities in the context of current geopolitical threats were discussed, the Interior Ministry said. […]
On 18 May in Vilnius, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Rolandas Kriščiūnas and Vice-Governor of Shandong Province Xia Geng opened a business forum, which was attended by about 50 representatives of Chinese enterprises and 70 representatives of Lithuanian companies. Business meetings were also held and interests of the two countries were presented. […]
EU foreign and defense ministers on Monday agreed to launch a naval mission to prevent the inflow of illegal immigrants and also tackling the problem of migration from the south. […]
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