Foreign affairs
Lithuanian parliament speaker to go to Germany to discuss refugee situation
A delegation led by Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė will go to Germany in October to discuss the refugee situation. […]
Month: September 2015
Global LT
No more ‘born in Soviet Union’ record in Belgian documents for Baltic citizens
Documents issued by Belgium to citizens of the Baltic states will no longer have records “born in the Soviet Union”, Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday. […]
Politics
MP Kubilius says Ukrainian president’s advisory council he is on works ‘theoretically’ only
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko‘s advisory council works only theoretically, Lithuanian opposition leader Andrius Kubilius of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats says. […]
Foreign affairs
Defence
Lithuanian Defence and Security Industry Association accepts Tutkus’ resignation
Board of the Lithuanian Defence and Security Industry Association has accepted the resignation of Lieutenant General Valdas Tutkus, the country’s former chief of defence, from director of the organization. […]
Defence
Parliamentary panel says nothing shady about Lithuania’s AFV purchase
All procedures of buying about 100 armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) are conducted in line with the law and in transparent manner, says Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the Lithuanian parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee. […]
Opinion
Opinion: Mandatory refugee quotas are threat to Lithuania’s sovereignty
On Tuesday, the European Union‘s (EU) interior ministers accepted a plan to redistribute 160,000 refugees that had come to Europe. Similar talks one week earlier failed, because several Central-Eastern European countries opposed the scheme. Lithuania has already committed itself to accepting 1,105 refugees; in the long run, though, the number might grow ten times. […]
Society
Lithuania planning refugee integration centres in Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda
Refugee integration centres will be opened in Lithuania’s largest cities of Vilnius, Kaunas and Klaipėda, the Ministry of Welfare and Labour said. […]
Society
European Union
Lithuanian president goes to EU Council meeting on refugee crisis
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė will on Wednesday travel to Brussels for an extraordinary meeting of the European Council, which has been convened as a matter of urgency to find a unified and effective response to the deepening refugee crisis. […]
Society
Energy
Lithuania may put off shale gas exploration tender again
Lithuanian Environment Minister Kęstutis Trečiokas is sceptical about the prospects for a new shale gas exploration tender and does not rule out that the government might postpone the launch of the procedure again. […]
Sports
Lithuanian president confers state decorations on EuroBasket 2015 silver medalists
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday awarded the national basketball team for their silver medals won in the European Basketball Championship 2015. […]
European Union
Lithuania backs EU refugee sharing plan
Despite objections from some Central and Eastern European countries, the European Union‘s interior ministers on Tuesday voted in support of the plan to share 120,000 refugees. […]
Foreign affairs
France opens consulate in Kaunas
Remigijus Žaliūnas, rector of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, has been appointed as the French honorary consul in Kaunas. […]
Politics
Lithuania’s municipalities reluctant to welcome refugees
As Lithuania has agreed to relocate 1,105 refugees, the country’s Welfare and Labour Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė has sent out letters to each of Lithuania’s 60 municipalities asking them to specify how much they can contribute to the effort. The responses have been less than encouraging. […]
Politics
Lithuanian politicians pay tribute to genocide victims in Paneriai
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė and Government Chancellor Alminas Mačiulis on Tuesday paid tribute to victims of the Jewish genocide at the Paneriai Memorial in Vilnius. […]
Society
Lithuanian BBQ masters make 100-metre chicken shashlik
On 19 September in Vilnius, a new record was achieved, the longest chicken shashlik was baked during the 10th Open Lithuanian BBQ Championship. […]
Defence
NATO jets in Baltics intercept Russian reconnaissance plane
Hungarian fighter jets JAS-39 Gripen, stationed in Lithuania as part of NATO‘s Baltic air policing mission, were on Monday scrambled from Šiauliai to accompany a Russian reconnaissance plane. […]
Politics
Seimas accepts president’s veto on allowing political parties have stakes in media
The Seimas of Lithuania has voted in favour of President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s veto to a bill that would have removed restrictions for political parties to be involved in media production. […]