Vilnius Tech Park, the region’s biggest hub for tech startups, opened for business today. Boasting more than 9,000 square meters of prime office space in renovated 19th century buildings, all set in the historic parkland of Sapiegos stately home, Vilnius Tech Park is now one of the most stylish working environments on offer in the Baltic States. […]
Lithuania’s media watchdog decided on Wednesday to suspend the broadcasting of the Russian TV channel RTR Planeta for three months for inciting war, discord and hatred toward nations. […]
About 4,000 Lithuanian and Allied troops will attend Iron Sword 2016 exercise held in Lithuania in late November through early December, the Defence Ministry said. […]
As the winds of change sweep the global political landscape, there has never been a better opportunity to deepen Lithuania’s ties with the United States, especially in the realm of national security and defence. […]
Lithuania’s Agriculture Minister Virginija Baltraitienė and former chief veterinary officer Jonas Milius did not confuse their public and private interests during the dinner and hunting activity in the Panevėžys district past summer with a delegation of the Latvian Agriculture Ministry and Lithuanian businessmen Pranas Dailidė and Virginijus Kantauskas, the Chief Official Ethics Commission found on Wednesday. […]
The departing government of Algirdas Butkevičius has poor relations with President Dalia Grybauskaitė. The head of state did not miss opportunities to sting or ridicule the Social Democrat-led cabinet, while the PM himself stated that […]
“The past Seimas elections and the circumstances that have developed in the Lithuanian Social Democrat Party (LSDP) threaten not only the organisation, but the prospects of the entire Social Democrat idea. Cosmetic means won’t help […]
Having received the support of the President Dalia Grybauskaitė and having been proposed as a Prime Minister candidate by the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LPGU), Saulius Skvernelis remains unwilling to discuss the names of […]
58 year old Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union candidate Viktoras Pranckietis has been elected as the new Seimas Speaker. His candidacy was supported by 93 members of Seimas. His opponent, Liberal Eugenijus Gentvilas received 36 votes. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed a decree that proposes Saulius Skvernelis as a candidate to the post of Prime Minister. Only the blessing of Seimas is needed now. The President, in her typical fashion, has […]
Lithuania’s new parliament on November 15 changed its statute to set up a new Committee on Culture and to abolish the Committee on Information Society Development, with its functions to be transferred to the Committee on Economics. […]
Lithuania remains among the most corrupt European countries – although Lithuanian residents paid fewer bribes to doctors and police officers in the past year, one in four residents have paid a bribe in the past 12 months, shows the Global Corruption Barometer published by Transparency International. […]
Fitch Ratings says that the inclusion of the Social Democrats in Lithuania’s new coalition government reduces policy uncertainty after last month’s parliamentary elections, in which the Peasant and Green Union (LPGU) scored a surprise victory, and believes that “material changes to economic, fiscal and social policy agendas are unlikely”. […]
The Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union frontrunner Saulius Skvernelis has been just proposed by the President Dalia Grybauskaitė to become the head of the new cabinet. On Wednesday last week, his party signed a coalition agreement with the Social Democrats, upon which the new state government will be based. Skvernelis spoke on reform, party influence and posts, experience in the police and what of it can be employed in government in an interview with Vakarinė Palanga. […]
Saulius Skvernelis who has made a successful career from a police officer to candidate for Lithuania’s prime minister has never lacked determination or ambition. His impulsive character has so far won him public support, however, can become a challenge in search of complex political compromise. […]
The Lithuanian and Swedish electricity markets should be connected by the second interconnection, NordBalt 2, by 2025, while the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant project should be frozen, suggests a new energy strategy worked out by the outgoing Lithuanian Energy Ministry and presented by Minister Rokas Masiulis on Tuesday […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday proposed that the parliament should consider Saulius Skvernelis as candidate for prime minister. […]
Members of Seimas elected 4 deputies for Seimas Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis – two Peasant Greens, one Social Democrat and one Conservative. Algirdas Butkevičius was not among the elected. His candidacy was supported by 66 members of Seimas, with 53 voting against and 14 abstaining. In order for a politician to be elected to the post, the number of votes against and abstaining has to be less than the number of votes for. […]
Viktoras Pranckietis of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union was elected as Lithuania’s new parliamentary speaker on November 14. […]
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