November 2015 - Page 5 of 12 - the Lithuania Tribune

Will there be rapprochement between Russia and West?

November 19, 2015 Ziniu radijas 0

Terrorist attacks in Paris and the plane crash over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula might provide a turning point in Russia‘s relations with the West, allowing Moscow to break out of international isolation. Major Western powers might have to adopt a more lenient tone when talking to Russia in order to have Moscow contribute to fighting international terrorism, says Laurynas Kasčiūnas, analyst at the Eastern Europe Studies Centre. […]

Lithuanian president appoints new judges

November 19, 2015 ELTA EN 0

President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed a decree on the appointment of nine judges of district courts and administered their oaths. […]

Lithuanian PM meets with EC vice president to discuss energy

November 19, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Prime Minister of Lithuania Algirdas Butkevičius met with Vice President of the European Commission (EC) in charge of the Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič in Brussels on Thursday. According to the prime minister, establishing the internal energy market in Europe is a priority objective for Lithuania. […]

Ambassador convinced that Finnish armoured vehicles best for Lithuania

November 19, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Ambassador of Finland, Mr Harri Mäki-Reinikka, is convinced that the Finnish Patria, as the market leader among 8X8 armoured wheeled vehicles, is the most suitable option for Lithuania. […]

Lithuanians born abroad to be allowed dual citizenship

November 19, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

The Lithuanian parliament has endorsed a bill allowing Lithuanians who are born abroad to retain dual citizenship. […]

Lithuanians, unlike Latvians or Poles, are not fighting in Syria

November 19, 2015 www.lrt.lt 0

The Lithuanian State Security Department says that there are no Lithuanian citizens fighting on the side of the Islamic State in Syria. However, several dozen Polish and Latvian Islamic State supporters have gone to Syria. […]

Vytautas Landsbergis, one of architects of Lithuanian independence, in hospital

November 19, 2015 DELFI EN 0

Vytautas Landsbergis, a prominent politician and one of the architects of the modern state of Lithuania, has been admitted to the intensive care unit of a hospital in Vilnius. […]

Government endorses Lithuanian airport concession bill

November 19, 2015 Ziniu radijas 0

The government has approved the bill on the Lithuanian airports concession, which is expected to boost competitiveness of Lithuania’s air transport system. […]

Parliamentary committee chair: Lithuania might have to join ground operation against ISIS

November 19, 2015 Ziniu radijas 0

Artūras Paulauskas, the head of the National Security and Defence Committee in the Lithuanian parliament, has said to the Žinių Radijas radio that a ground operation against the Islamic State (ISIS) will have to be launched and Lithuania will probably not be able to stay away. […]

Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the National Security and Defence Committee

Lithuanian institutions demand extra funding to address terrorism threats

November 19, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Reacting to the terrorist attacks in France, Lithuania’s Parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee has requested additional funding for the State Security Department, the Lithuanian Police Anti-Terrorist Operations Unit, Aras, and the State Border Guard Service. The committee requests to designate 14.4 million euro to these institutions in next year’s budget. […]

Lithuanians not welcoming to refugees, poll shows

November 19, 2015 DELFI EN 0

A new poll suggests that most Lithuanians are not very welcoming of refugees and do not agree with the government’s policies of offering asylum to people fleeing wars in the Middle East. […]

Truce in east Ukraine ‘in the balance’

November 19, 2015 www.lrt.lt 0

The Lithuanian foreign minister and his Swedish counterpart, who are on a visit to Ukraine this week, stated after meeting Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin that ceasefire in the country’s eastern regions was hanging in the balance. […]

US to maintain troops in Lithuania

November 18, 2015 ELTA EN 0

While on a formal visit in the United States, Lithuania’s Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas met with US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter on 17 November in Washington, Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defence reports. […]

Seimas speaker not worried about budget warnings from EC

November 18, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania’s draft budget for 2016 allows for conservative optimism, says Loreta Graužinienė, speaker of the Seimas. According to the parliament’s leader, there is no risk that budget spending would exceed income in 2016 more than projected. […]

Lithuanian leaders congratulate Latvia on independence day

November 18, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Latvia celebrates its Independence on 18 November, marking the day in 1918 when it declared independence from the Russian Empire. The leaders of Lithuania, which declared itself an independent republic in the same year, have extended their congratulations to their Latvian counterparts. […]

Lithuanian consumers pay least for gas in region, EC says

November 18, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Both household consumers and industrial companies in Lithuania pay the smallest price for gas in the region, according to the newest report on European gas markets by the European Commission (EC). […]

Lithuanian airports losing race for regional domination to Riga

November 18, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Direct air transport effect on Lithuania‘s economy in 2013 reached 86 million euro, or 0.25 percent of GDP. However, it is only the tip of the iceberg, since the total sum of direct, indirect, induced effects and the broader economic benefits from air transport effect in Lithuania would be 870 million euro, or 2.5 percent of GDP. […]