The expected triumph of the right-wing Law and Justice party in Poland‘s parliamentary elections will likely make relations between Vilnius and Warsaw more tense, particularly on issues pertaining to ethnic minorities, says Professor Šarūnas Liekis of Kaunas Vytautas Magnus University. […]
The Lithuanian Embassy in Sweden, together with the Lithuanian State Department of Tourism and the Swedish partners, organized the event “Welcome to Lithuania” on 22 October in Stockholm to present the Lithuanian tourism opportunities. […]
The Supreme Court of Lithuania ruled on Friday to uphold a verdict passed by Stockholm Arbitration court which bound Lithuania not to adjudicate in a dispute with Gazprom. […]
Last month, ratings of three politicians grew while those of five others fell. A survey commissioned by news agency ELTA and carried out on 12-22 September by pollster Baltijos Tyrimai has revealed that President Dalia Grybauskaitė and former president Valdas Adamkus were the most favourably evaluated public figures in Lithuania, among 70 percent of the polled each. […]
In 2015, people more actively donated to the Lithuanian army by transferring 2 percent of their personal income tax. The number of such contributions has increased seven times. […]
On Friday Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with legal experts to discuss how to ensure transparent and effective work of the Prosecutor General‘s Office. Experts have noted that independence of the prosecutor general has been established in the Constitution. However, there have been repeated attempts to make the institution into a tool for politicians which is diminishing confidence in the state, the president believes. […]
Proudly transitioning from an aid receiver to an affluent Western society, Lithuania has yet to live up to its commitments of financial help to the world’s poorest. […]
Conventional wisdom dictates vision before planning. It seems neither are present in the cautious, yet steady Western reset with Belarus, whose authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko recently secured his fifth term in elections widely considered to be flawed, argues Marius Laurinavičius, fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). […]
On October 21 at a session of the Land Combat Vehicles (LCV) Support Partnership of the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) in Luxembourg, Lithuania joined the PzH2000 self-propelled 155mm howitzer user project by a unanimous agreement of Croatia, Italy, Germany, Greece, and the Netherlands – all the countries taking part in the project. […]
At its plenary sitting, the Seimas of Lithuania has adopted the amendments to the Law on Fundamentals of Protection of the Rights of the Child, aimed at preventing sexual offences against children. […]
On 28-29 October, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will visit Italy and Vatican, where she will have an audience with Pope Francis. […]
Military personnel from Lithuania and other countries of the NATO Alliance taking part in NATO Exercise Trident Juncture 2015 have redeployed to Spain, set up military camps in San Gregorio and are beginning to train according to the exercise scenario, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
The Social Democrats have proposed to completely transform the current election system in Lithuania. Their proposal includes abolishing single-seat constituencies, dividing Lithuania into 10 voting districts. […]
Lithuanian PM Algirdas Butkevičius has said everyone should care about the challenges of climate change. The prime minister signed a declaration on climate change together with other state leaders and members of the Party of European Socialists on Wednesday in Paris. […]
Lithuanian Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis says Lithuania must follow the law and not emotions when considering whether to allow entry for the Academic Ensemble of Song and Dance of the Russian Army named after Alexander Alexandrov. […]
Minister of the Interior Saulius Skvernelis says in the long-run Lithuania will have to reinstate the rules requiring drivers to be completely sober. […]
Defence ministers and army commanders of Belgium and Luxembourg are coming to Lithuania on Thursday to observe the international military exercise Baltic Piranha. […]
On 20 October, the Embassy of Lithuania in the United Kingdom and Oxford Intelligence organized a business networking event in London, the embassy reports. […]
On 20 October in Vilnius, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Andrius Krivas, officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National Defence met with a group of experts from the Influential US think tank Atlantic Council, led by Magnus Nordenman, to discuss current challenges to Lithuania’s security, measures to ensure security and potential support from allies in this field. […]
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