Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė submitted a bill aimed at curbing the shady donations from state and municipality controlled companies, preventing waste of money and ensuring more transparency. […]
Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė believes that Vytautas Landsbergis – who was the first head of the restored and independent Republic of Lithuania, the chairman of the Supreme Council of Lithuania, and a signatory of the Independence Restoration Act – should have been awarded with the very first Freedom Prize. […]
The Lithuanian Parliament has adopted the final amendments satisfying legal conditions that will ensure Lithuania’s full-fledged participation in the banking union. […]
Negotiation groups of the Baltic States and the European Commission signed three agreements in Tallinn securing EUR 734 million funding from the EU for new Rail Baltica development stages in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. […]
The Seimas, the Parliament of Lithuania, has rejected the initiative to introduce progressive taxation. […]
NATO has shown that its members will not tolerate violations of their airspace territorial integrity, Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius said to the Žinių Radijas radio. […]
Seventy-five Lithuanian MPs representing various political groups have addressed Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius urging him not to accept the resignation of Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis. […]
During the first session of the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture’s (UNESCO) new Executive Board in Paris on 20 November, Lithuania was elected vice-chair of this governing body. Lithuania’s Ambassador to UNESCO Arūnas Gelūnas will represent Lithuania in the Executive Board, Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
The Eurogroup, which has discussed the European Commission‘s (EC) recent assessments of 2016 Draft Budgetary Plans (DPBs) of the Eurozone member-states, expressed doubts about the EC assessment of the Lithuanian economic cycle […]
Labour Party‘s Chairman Valentinas Mazuronis has asked the parties in Lithuania’s governing coalition to revise the country’s refugee quota. […]
On November 18 and 19, the well-known Lithuanian singer Jurga Šeduikytė performed in Brussels and Luxembourg. The singer presented her newly released album „Giliai vandeny“ (Deep in the Water) and performed her most famous award-winning songs whilst having the audience singing along. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania has rejected the motion to award Conservative MEP Vytautas Landsbergis, a prominent leader of Lithuania’s independence movement, with a prestigious Freedom Prize. […]
Remittances from the Lithuanian diaspora has long played a significant role in the country’s economy. Expatriates send a lot of the money they make in the UK or Norway to their families that stayed behind in Lithuania, stimulating domestic consumption and keeping some low-earning relatives from falling into poverty. Statistics indicate, however, that remittances have dropped significantly this year. […]
Lithuanian military day and the 97th anniversary of the restoration of the Lithuanian army was commemorated on Monday. […]
The Small Business Act for Europe report shows that Lithuania exceeded the EU average in areas of entrepreneurship, administration, state support, public procurement, funding possibilities and the overall market situation. […]
A feud between Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė and Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis that began last week have evoked reactions from online petitioners. One petition urges to keep Skvernelis in his post, while another calls for the parliament speaker’s resignation. […]
Someone recently described the recent terrorist attacks in Paris as designed in Syria and developed in Brussels. It may very well be. Meanwhile Moscow monitors and actively exploits every turn of the conflict. […]
During the 21st Baltic Council at the Seimas (Parliament) on 20 November, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius underlined the need to further strengthen security in the region and stressed the importance of ensuring energy independence, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
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