Agnė Bilotaitė, member of the parliamentary group of the conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD), has asked Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė to remove MP Julius Sabatauskas from the position as chairman of the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs. […]
On 3 December, Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas discussed his recent visit in the US, assistance to Ukraine, participation in multinational operations and other security and defence issues at a meeting with Ambassador of the United States in Lithuania Deborah A. McCarthy, the Ministry of National Defence reports. […]
A Lithuanian member of the European Parliament, Antanas Guoga, who has Australian citizenship, has recently discovered that Lithuanian laws do not allow foreign citizens to run in parliamentary elections. Guoga was planning to be a candidate of the Liberal Movement party in Vilkaviškis single-member constituency and challenge the incumbent Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius in 2016. […]
Five parties would pass the 5-percent threshold and secure seats in the Lithuanian Parliament if elections were to take place in the nearest future, the latest public opinion poll has revealed. […]
Lithuanian electricity grid operator LESTO is merging with the gas company Lietuvos Dujos. The purpose of the merger is to optimise the operations, and reduce costs so that consumers can pay less for gas and electricity, according to Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis. […]
A Baltic Sea region index compiled by Swedbank shows that despite considerable progress, Lithuania is still not as competitive as it could be. Lithuania was placed among the top third of the most competitive countries in the world, which is a better result than last year, but essential progress is still needed. […]
A meeting between President Dalia Grybauskaitė and the Parliamentary Committees on Foreign and European Affairs discussed the EU’s refugee relocation scheme. According to the European Affairs Committee chair Gediminas Kirkilas, Lithuania’s position is to oppose proposals of introducing a permanent mechanism for refugee resettlement. […]
After sold-out premières in Vilnius, Lithuania, and New York, new documentary film “Land of Songs” will have its West Coast Première on the closing night of Stanford University’s 2015 Baltic Film Series. […]
The Vilnius Yiddish Reading Circle, which is celebrating its seventeenth year, has been concentrating this autumn on prewar Yiddish newspapers from Vilnius and Kaunas (Vílne and Kóvne, to use their Yiddish names), trying to balance literary materials with entertaining episodes of the day and the light they shed on a now-vanished civilization that once thrived here. […]
Prior to the annual OSCE Ministerial Council on 3-4 December, a meeting of the Group of Friends of Ukraine with the Crimean Tatar leader Mustafa Dzhemilev was held on Lithuania’s initiative, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
Kumar Anubhav Tiwari from India, who is working as a lecturer at Kaunas University of Technology, says that while Lithuania seems to him a peaceful and welcoming country, a recent attack that he thinks was motivated by racism has shaken his good impression of the country. In a letter, published below, he explains his concerns. […]
Transparency International has published the Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index revealing that primary anti-corruption challenges for Lithuania’s defence and security sector are related to internal procedures and procurement. […]
Lithuania has landed the first spot in the list of countries with best public WiFi in the world for the second year in a row. […]
After accusations of disloyalty and corruption were publicly voiced against the leadership of the Public Security Service (VST) and the institution itself, President Dalia Grybauskaitė has said that circumstances and facts must be examined before making judgements. She also criticized the new head of the VST for publicly discussing problems in the service. […]
A new spiral of NATO expansion directly affects Russia‘s interests and provokes a response, Russia’s Foreign Ministry said in a commentary released on Wednesday over NATO’s invitation to Montenegro to join the alliance. […]
On Wednesday, the government of Lithuania approved minimum wage raise up to 350 euro per month. The new rate will apply from January 1, 2016. […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius says that invitation extended this week to Montenegro to begin NATO membership negotiations is a signal not only to the Western Balkans but Georgia as well. […]
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