Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is leaving for Malta on a working visit on 11-12 November to attend an informal European Council meeting and an EU-Africa summit which aims to find more effective measures to stop the flows of illegal migration, the Lithuanian president’s office reports. […]
In late November, 24,000 Lithuanian consumers will receive electricity from Sweden for the first time. During a half an hour special test when the Lithuanian electricity system operator Litgrid is planning to verify the NordBalt black-start feature, the residents in Klaipėda and Šilutė districts will be provided with electricity from a single source – the Lithuanian and Swedish interconnector NordBalt, Litgrid reports. […]
The latest Eurobarometer survey has shown that an overall majority of Lithuanians (92 percent) have a positive opinion about the impact of the European Union‘s (EU) regional policy projects on regional growth in the country. Lithuanians are also very optimistic about the EU’s future, their new currency euro, and also feel increasingly more European. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has contested suggestions that social exclusion in the country is growing. […]
The Seimas and the World Lithuanian Community Commission is starting its work in the Lithuanian parliament on Tuesday. The commission’s agenda includes issues related to preservation of Lithuanian citizenship, setting up a voting constituency for expatriates and refugee resettlement. […]
Five national and international military exercises are planned in Lithuania in November. Lieutenant General Jonas Vytautas Žukas, the Chief of Defence of Lithuania, says that these exercises, which involve thousands of soldiers and considerable military equipment, do not only show Lithuania‘s preparedness to defend itself, but also NATO‘s attention to collective defence in Eastern Europe. […]
Danish economist Morten Hansen and Romas Lazutka, professor at Vilnius University, argue that Lithuania‘s economy has caught caught up with those of Greece and Portugal. The two scholars and Žilvinas Šilėnas, the president of the Lithuanian Free Market Institute, provide different explanations why. […]
On 27 October 2014, the port of Klaipėda on the sea coast of Lithuania was crowded with people and heads of the Baltic States. The day marked a new era in the energy security sector for Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, as an LNG ship called “Independence” was met with Lithuanian flags waving high. Even higher were the expectations of this floating LNG terminal which at the time analysts called “a game changer” in the Baltic gas sector. However, one year on, Lithuanian government is struggling to find ways to lower the FSRU costs and expand their gas market – “Independence” has become an expensive burden. […]
On 1 December 2015, Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists (LPK) is organizing its Annual Economic. Experts and representatives from leading global competitors, like Switzerland, Germany, USA and business leaders from other countries, shall discuss on global and European issues, including progress and issues of competitiveness in Lithuania, the Lithuanian Confederation of Industrialists said. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has accused the parliament of being influenced by interest groups when it voted down two candidates proposed for the post of prosecutor general. Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says there will not be another vote until all suspicions are cleared. […]
The Special Investigation Service (STT) Panevėžys Department detained a person on suspicions of acting in a group of accomplices and misappropriating high-value property of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), which is being decommissioned. The court gave authorisation to arrest the person for ten days. […]
Antanas Guoga, member of the European Parliament, has announced he will be running for a seat in the Lithuanian parliament, the Seimas, in next year’s general elections. […]
Mandatory military service lists in Lithuania for 2016 will be finalized on 7 January 2016. As in 2015, next year 3,000 young men will join the 9-month mandatory service. […]
Vilnius Regional Administrative Court has rejected OAO Gazprom‘s compliant against Lithuania’s Competition Council. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has expressed condolences over the passing of former President of Israel Yitzhak Navon, the Lithuanian president’s office said in a statement. […]
One month after Russia got itself involved into the Syrian war, there is little doubt that Moscow’s actions, aimed at soothing domestic delusions of grandeur, will only bring more chaos and destruction into the conflict, argues Vytautas Dumbliauskas, Associate Professor at Mykolas Romeris University. […]
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