Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is planning a visit to Israel this week, says that the Lithuanian-Israeli relations have never been as good as they are now. She adds that the four-day visit might have international significance due to current tensions in Israeli-Palestinian relations. […]
Lithuania, Poland and the European Commission are signing a deal on Thursday over the financing of the GIPL gas pipeline between Lithuania and Poland. The interconnection is said to be an important project in furthering the EU’s energy union and the Baltic aspiration towards energy independence from Russia. […]
A group of 37 members of the Lithuanian Parliament has proposed to launch a parliamentary inquiry into the activities of the PR company Ministerium which was formerly owned by the prime minister’s son-in-law. […]
As natural gas consumption has dropped drastically in the energy sector, the minimum quantity of natural gas required for the operation of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Terminal will twice surpass the projected demand by energy producers. The designated supplier, company Litgas, forecasts that due to such changes in the market the average gas purchase price for energy producers may rise by approximately 50 percent. This shows that the existing designated supply model is no longer sustainable. […]
According to representatives of the European Commission (EC), synchronisation of the Baltic states’ power network with transmission systems of the West could cost approximately EUR 800 million, including the LitPol Link electricity connection with Poland. […]
The theatre goes on. Alexander Lukashenko will continue in his long running ‘role’ as president of Belarus. One cannot say ‘elected,’ ‘endorsed’ or even ‘confirmed.’ Not only would none of these be true, they would simply not be believable. As has been said, the only question in this piece of performance art was whether Lukashenko would choose to win by 72%, 79% or even more absurd, 83% of the vote, based upon the delusion that ‘believability’ was possible and that the Belarusian population can be kept silent. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has met with former Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski to discuss the strategically important projects: power bridge LitPol Link, gas connection GIPL, and Poland‘s involvement in Rail Baltica. The prime minister congratulated the president on the award of Rokiškis honorary citizenship, thanking the president for his merits to Lithuania, the prime minister’s press service said. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has appointed Vaidotas Mažeika to the post of deputy director of the State Security Department. […]
At the conference Verslas 2016 (Business 2016), Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius introduced the Government’s economic policy priorities for the upcoming year. The priorities include: continuation of the systematic reform of the energy sector, strengthening of the domestic market, mitigation of tax burden on the lowest earners, minimum wage growth and remuneration increase in certain sectors. […]
A Lithuanian officer who was injured in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan is expected to be transported to The Landstuhl Regional Medical Centre in Ramstein, Germany, on Wednesday. The Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces learned about this from Bahram military hospital were the officer is being treated. […]
DELFI, in cooperation with the magazine Reitingai and pulbic opinion pollster Spinter Tyrimai, has put together lists of Lithuania’s most influential people in various fields of activity. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has accepted letters of credence from Hungarian Ambassador Zoltan Jancsi. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of Environment will submit the requirements via the European Commission with a view to ensuring that no genetically modified (GM) crops are grown in Lithuania. This ban will be in force throughout the territory of the country, the ministry reports. […]
A structural reform plan for the State Security Department will be presented to the members of the parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee on Wednesday. […]
On 13 October in Rokiškis (Lithuania), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius congratulated Poland‘s outgoing President Bronislaw Komorowski on becoming an honorary citizen of Rokiškis town and highlighted the importance of friendly ties between Lithuania and Poland, Lithuania’s MFA said. […]
The Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, rejected the bill that would have introduced the institution of partnership of opposite sex couples. The Ministry of Justice, which drafted the law, says the proposed legislation merely acknowledges the existing forms of cohabitation, while the opponents insist that civil partnership is an encroachment on the institution of marriage and is just one step away from legalizing same-sex partnership. […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius believes that further criminal investigation into the tragic crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) will name concrete perpetrators of the crime and they will be brought to justice. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė attended the inauguration of the Nasdaq technology and business support competence centre as well as a new office of the stock exchange Nasdaq Vilnius and the Lithuanian Central Securities Depository in Vilnius, the presidential press service said. […]
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