Members of the Committee on Legal Affairs of the Lithuanian parliament (Seimas) have suggested to change the procedure of appointing prosecutor general. Under current regulation, the prosecutor general is appointed by the president, with parliament’s approval; a new bill suggests letting the government pick the candidate. […]
The world is back in the Cold War situation, when governments’ official line stresses the need to talk, while in fact they are engaging in proxy war, according to Laurynas Jonvičius, political scientist at the Institute of International Relations and Political Science of Vilnius University. […]
A Vilnius unit of the conservative Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) has nominated diplomat Žygimantas Pavilionis to run for a parliament seat in the upcoming general elections next year in the Naujamiestis constituency of Vilnius. […]
A segment of Rail Baltica between Kaunas and the Polish border is officially opening on Friday. The Lithuanian prime minister says it is now up to Poland to upgrade its network so that transportation of cargo and passengers on the railway can begin. […]
IT and telecommunications company Teo has purchased 100 percent of the shares of the Lithuanian mobile service provider Omnitel from its current shareholder TeliaSonera. The move has provoked a lot of discussion in the Lithuania public sphere and that shouldn’t surprise anyone as the purchase is one of the biggest in Lithuania’s business history. Both companies are owned by Swedish Company TeliaSonera. […]
Representatives of Poland, Lithuania and the European Commission signed a funding agreement for the Gas Interconnection Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) on Thursday, securing the EU’s funding for the project that will enable free gas flow between Poland and the Baltic states. […]
The Lithuanian Parliament has begun considering legislative amendments that would peg retirement to average life expectancy. It has been proposed that two years after the average projected life expectancy of people aged 65 years grows by six months, the retirement age would be raised by six months as well. […]
On 14 October, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius attended the première of the film Persona Non Grata about a Japanese ambassador in Lithuania who issued visas to Jews during World War Two, saving thousands of people from death. […]
After a month of concentrating on prewar Yiddish newspapers from Vilnius (Yiddish Vílne), the weekly Yiddish Literary Reading Circle, now in its 17th year, turns in its next session, this coming Sunday, 18 October 2015 at 1 PM (1300) sharp, to readings from Yiddish newspapers in interwar Kaunas (Yiddish Kóvne). […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is attending a European Council meeting to discuss the refugee crisis, says that economic migrants should be separated from genuine war-fleeing refugees and the latter are not supposed to be picky which safe country to go to. […]
After submission on Thursday, the Lithuanian Parliament approved amendments to the Labour Code and accompanying legislation regulating the new social model. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that gas pipeline with Poland will provide an opportunity for Lithuania not only to import but also to export natural gas, depending on the situation in the market. […]
What are our obligations to those threatened by war and violence? What and how much can we cope with? When will we reach our uppermost limits? Each of these three questions is quite legitimate. But if the debate is restricted to the media soundbites “we can do it” and “the boat is full”, then the refugee crisis threatens to tear our society apart. We need an honest discussion about our realistic scope for action. […]
On 13-14 October, NATO defence planning experts conducted a visit in Lithuania to assess the status quo of Lithuania’s defence capabilities and prospective defence reforms. NATO experts were particularly interested in the steps Lithuania made to respond to changing security situation in the region, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence said. […]
An agreement on financial assistance for the Gas Interconnection Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) project was signed at the European Commission‘s building Berlaymont on Thursday. […]
The Lithuanian army has confirmed that United States is setting up a centre to service American troops deployed in the Baltics. […]
Lithuania’s Kauno Tiltai AB, the largest transportation infrastructure company in the Baltics, and Mitnija UAB, the largest construction company in Lithuania, have finished laying, remodelling and upgrading the first European gauge railway from Šeštokai town to Marijampolė town (Lithuania), Mitnija said in a press release. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is planning a visit to Israel this week, says that the Lithuanian-Israeli relations have never been as good as they are now. She adds that the four-day visit might have international significance due to current tensions in Israeli-Palestinian relations. […]
Lithuania, Poland and the European Commission are signing a deal on Thursday over the financing of the GIPL gas pipeline between Lithuania and Poland. The interconnection is said to be an important project in furthering the EU’s energy union and the Baltic aspiration towards energy independence from Russia. […]
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