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Year: 2015
Freetime
A Week in Vilnius: 12–17 February
Here’s a week full of recommendations of how to spend your free time in Vilnius. Music, art, gastronomy, bar-hopping, cinema and sports – but please, don’t try to experience everything at the same time. […]
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Lithuania asks World Bank to reclassify Baltic states as developed countries
Lithuania’s Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius has once again called upon the World Bank’s president to upgrade the status of the three Baltic states in this institution from emerging to developed countries. […]
Politics
Lithuanian MP awarded French Legion of Honour order
On 12 January, the president of France signed a decree under which Lithuania’s Deputy Seimas Speaker, Chair of the Committee on European Affairs, Social Democrat MP Gediminas Kirkilas has been appointed as an officier of the Legion of Honour. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania considers closing embassy in Belgium
Lithuania is considering to close its embassy in Belgium, parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Benediktas Juodka said on Wednesday. […]
Society
Most Lithuanians concerned about cybercrime, survey shows
According to a Eurobarometer survey, 85 percent of internet users in the European Union believe that the risk of becoming a victim of cybercrime is growing (a 9-percent increase compared with the survey from 2013). […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee: Reset of relations with Russia failed
The Lithuanian government‘s aim to reset relations with Russia failed, says Benediktas Juodka, chairman of the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee. […]
Defence
President Grybauskaitė calls for more US presence in Lithuania as she sends off new NATO ambassador
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the country should seek stronger US and NATO presence in Lithuania and closer NATO ties with Ukraine. […]
Economy
Lithuania to make first payment into ESM
Lithuania, which formally joined the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) in early February, will transfer the first 65.44-million-euro tranche of paid-in capital on Wednesday, a week after the Cabinet gave the green light for the payment. […]
Sports
Šarūnas Jasikevicius to be named Euroleague Basketball Legend
Lithuanian legendary basketball player, Šarūnas Jasikevičius, who retired at the end of last season, will be formally crowned a Euroleague basketball legend this Thursday. […]
Society
Lithuanian historian: Moscow does not have moral right to host end of WWII celebrations
Ronaldas Račinskas, the head of the International Commission for the Evaluation of Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania, approves of the ideas of Polish politicians when they say that events marking the end of World War II hostilities should take place in other European capitals and not in Moscow. He says that Russia continues to justify its actions with categories from World War II. […]
Politics
Lithuania’s two biggest parties preparing for leadership elections
Two of Lithuania’s political heavyweights, the Social Democratic Party and the Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives), are preparing for leadership elections. […]
Society
Norway’s ambassador to Lithuania speaks out on child custody controversy involving Norwegian child services
Norway‘s Ambassador to Lithuania Dag Malmer Halvorsen says that children are rarely taken from their Lithuanian families in Norway. […]
European Union
Mogherini stresses historic responsibility in talks on Ukraine
The European Union‘s (EU) foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says that the French and German leaders attending the Minsk talks on peace in Ukraine on Wednesday will speak on the EU’s behalf, emphasizing the historic responsibility of the talks. […]
Baltic Assembly Committee to hold meeting in Šiauliai
The third event of the Lithuanian Presidency of the Baltic Assembly will be held in Šiauliai. The Education, Science and Culture Committee of the Baltic Assembly will have a meeting in Šiauliai University on Friday, 13 February 2015, the Seimas press service said. […]
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Lithuanian parliament speaker not hopeful about Minsk peace talks
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says she does not have high hopes for the Minsk peace talks, which are starting on Wednesday and will focus on working out a solution for Russia‘s undeclared war on Ukraine. […]
Economy
2014 record year for Lithuanian startups
On 5 February, Enterprise Lithuania hosted its annual startup event Startup Lithuania Overview 2014. During the event, the highlights of Lithuania Startup Ecocystem of 2014 were announced and awards were given to the teams that achieved the most in 2014, Enterprise Lithuania reports. […]
Society
Seven Ukrainian kids to come to Lithuania to finish academic year
Seven Ukrainian children from the war-ridden areas of Luhansk and Donetsk accompanied by a teacher should come to Lithuania later in February to finish the academic year here, the Lithuanian government said in the cover letter of a resolution. […]
European Union
Lithuania calls for strengthening EU’s external borders
Lithuania’s Deputy Foreign Minister Rolandas Kriščiūnas, who attended General Affairs Council in Brussels on Tuesday, has stressed the necessity to strengthen the security of the European Union‘s external borders. […]
Society
Back from Afghanistan: Roundtable on veterans’ experiences
Scholars will discuss the consequences of the Soviet-Afghan War of 1979–1989 from a transnational perspective, especially in terms of strategies for (re)integrating veterans during a two-day workshop at the European Humanities University. On February 12 at 5 PM they present their research in a round table at Vilnius University´s History Faculty. […]