Politics
Month: November 2015
Opinion
Foreign affairs
EU Commissioner Andriukaitis criticizes Lithuanian president for refusing to work with Russia
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has recently said that Lithuania will not join any coalition against the Islamic State that includes Russia. Vytenis Andriukaitis, Europoean Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, has publicly criticized such a position, LNK TV news programme reports. […]
Politics
Lithuanian president says interior minister staying in office is ‘his choice’
President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė says Saulius Skvernelis‘ decision to remain in office as the interior minister is “his choice”. […]
Foreign affairs
Politics
Political scientists: Interior minister overreacted
Political scientists say that Saulius Skvernelis, Lithuania’s Interior Minister delegated by the party Order and Justice, overreacted when announcing his resignation. Political scientists say that although President Dalia Grybauskaite criticised the minister, she did not send a clear message that he should step down. […]
Society
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian president to attend climate change summit in Paris
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is leaving for Paris on Monday to attend the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21). The meeting, to be attended by almost 150 state and government leaders from around the globe, is expected to arrive at agreements on greenhouse gas emissions and action to stop climate change. […]
European Union
Turkey’s contribution is essential to overcome migration crisis, Lithuanian president says
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė attended the EU-Turkey summit in Brussels where Turkey was represented by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu. The summit was held to discuss the flow of Syrian refugees crossing Turkey, the press service of the president said. […]
Politics
Skvernelis stays as Lithuania’s minister of the interior
Saulius Skvernelis, Lithuania’s minister of the interior who submitted a resignation letter a week ago, is staying in the post. He announced the decision on Monday morning, after a meeting with Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius. […]
Defence
VSD head: No need to raise terrorism threat level in Lithuania
There is no need to announce a higher level of terrorism threat in Lithuania, because the State Security Department (VSD) is working to monitor the situation in the country and cooperating with foreign partners, the head of the State Security Department, Darius Jauniškis, told the LRT programme Savaitė. […]
Opinion
Opinion: Putin the troll
Tolkienites would say that trolls are creatures originated from stone and that they lurk in dark caves and gloomy forests, that they’re the scivies of evil forces that inhabit the Middle Earth. They’re big and vicious and form the forefront of Lord Mordor’s army, always ready to be the first to get into a fight. Daylight gets rid of trolls, because when exposed to it they turn to stone. But the trolls I want to talk about are not from J R Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings universe. […]
Economy
Japan, a business opportunity too far?
Walking through Tokyo Station on a weekday morning with tens of thousands of people leaves the impression of a well orchestrated ballet where the dancers manage to find their way through what looks like a labyrinth of train lines, subway, shopping areas and high speed train lines. Most of these people are the backbone of the innovative Japanese economy. […]
Politics
President Grybauskaitė believes Freedom Prize should be given to Landsbergis
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is also among those who believe that the Seimas should have awarded the Freedom Prize 2015 to Vytautas Landsbergis, the first head of the restored and independent Republic of Lithuania, chairman of the Supreme Council of Lithuania (Reconstituent Seimas), signatory of the Independence Restoration Act. […]
Global LT
Lithuanian fashion entrepreneur Inga Sataite’s success in Sweden
Fashion entrepreneur Inga Sataite hosted an event at her high-end store Fabiana Filippi last week, a store which is located on one of Stockholm’s most exclusive streets. […]
Economy
Over 11,000 reports on environmental violations received last year in Lithuania
During its first year of activities, the Centre for Information Gathering and Management at the State Environmental Protection Agency (VAAT) of Lithuania, established back in autumn of 2014, received over 11,000 reports on violations of environmental protection requirements, Lithuania’s Ministry of Environment said. […]
Economy
Lithuanians among 100 Financial Times and Google innovators
The executive director of Association Infobalt, Paulius Vertelka, and the developer of the mobile app Plag, Ilya Zudinas, are Lithuania‘s representatives in the top 100 list of Central and Eastern European innovators. […]
Economy
Declining demographics will first affect Lithuania’s rural areas, industry association says
President of the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists (LPK) Robertas Dargis says that the shortage of specialists and growing migration to foreign countries and Lithuania’s major cities will first pose problems for rural areas. […]
European Union
Lithuania to appeal to EC about daylight saving time
The Lithuanian Parliament has asked the Government to address the European Commission with the proposal that the European Union member states be allowed to decide themselves whether to follow the daylight saving time. The Government must forward the proposal to the European Commission by 30 April 2016 at the latest. […]
Energy
Lithuanian energy minister accuses Vilniaus Energija of manipulations
Energy company Vilniaus Energija has claimed that heating prices in Vilnius will soar due to obligations to purchase liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Klaipėda’s terminal. The Ministry of Energy has responded to such claims by saying that in October the company itself decided to purchase from the LNG terminal significantly more gas than planned previously. Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis has stated that Vilniaus Energija is manipulating prices of acquired fuel. […]