Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is against the proposal to give priority to local processors to buy timber produced in Lithuanian forests. According to the president, this would not only infringe the competition but would also create exceptional conditions to the major processors. […]
Vilnius City Municipality Council approved the construction of a multifunctional health, education and activity centre in Vilnius. A tender for investors should be announced in May. The Central Project Management Agency is overseeing the project. […]
On 15 April, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius in a meeting with Parliamentary Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan Kentaro Sonoura expressed his gratitude to Japan for supporting Lithuania’s ambition to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and noted that Lithuania was looking forward to mutually beneficial cooperation within the OECD. […]
The Seimas Committee on Rural Affairs has addressed the Government asking to ban cultivation of genetically modified organisms (GMO) in Lithuania and thus implement the European Parliament’s and the European Council‘s directive on GMOs. […]
Lithuania’s former president and prime minister Algirdas Mykolas Brazauskas has been awarded the title of honorary citizen of Vilnius. […]
European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis of Lithuania has undergone a surgical procedure in Vilnius. […]
Lithuania is not considering building a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas on its own, without Latvia and Estonia, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Wednesday. […]
Lithuania banned a Russian TV channel, RTR Planeta, last week, becoming the first European Union member state to take this step in an attempt to tackle what it calls Russia’s information war. However, even supporters of the move say that bans alone will not solve the problem. […]
The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is the instrument through which the European Union (EU) aims to create bonds between its Member States and the countries at the boundaries of the EU and thus secure the stability of the European borders. The EU stipulates Association Agreements offering financial support and other advantages in exchange for a commitment to implement reforms. There are two action plans within the ENP: the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and the Eastern Partnership (EaP). […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė accepted letters of credence from Ambassador Wei Ruixing of the People’s Republic of China, the presidential press service said. […]
Estonian company JetGas has expressed interest to use Lithuania’s future liquefied natural gas (LNG) distribution station which will be constructed in Klaipėda. […]
Lithuania’s Armed Forces expect to receive artillery systems from Germany in 2016. […]
Hungary’s low-cost airline Wizz Air on Wednesday announced that it is going to open three new routes this autumn from Vilnius International Airport – to Munich, Glasgow and Kiev. […]
Although the three Baltic countries continue official discussions about possibilities to build a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas together, the Lithuanian authorities have started to consider chances to develop the project with just one partner – the supplier of technology, Japan’s Hitachi. […]
The Ministry of Transport and Communications estimates that in 2014 Lithuania’s transport sector accounted for 13.1 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). […]
Lithuania’s Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology (MITA) has launched a competition for students to complete an internship with NASA Ames Research Centre in the United States and is now accepting applications. […]
On Tuesday, 14 April, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published its World Economic Outlook in which Lithuania has been classified as an advanced economy. Previously the IMF regarded Lithuania as an emerging market. […]
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