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Year: 2016
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Small chance that Zika virus will spread to Lithuania, says expert
There is only a small chance that the Zika virus could spread to Lithuania with cold weather preventing the mosquitos who carry the virus from living long enough, according to a leading Lithuanian expert, but pregnant women should still not travel to countries with warmer climates where the virus has been detected. […]
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No difference between Landsbergis’ nationalism and Putin’s, claims Andriukaitis
EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis said there was little difference between the nationalist outlook of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Hungarian leader Viktor Orban and Lithuania’s first post-independent leader, Vytautas Landsbergis. […]
Society
Politics
Ethics watchdog will not investigate London trip of minister’s husband
Lithuania’s ethics watchdog has decided not to investigate Education Minister Audronė Pitrėnienė who caused controversy by taking her husband on an official trip to London. […]
European Union
Lithuanian president on refugees: no documents, no asylum
The European Union must prioritize the security of European citizens over that of refugees, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė believes. If that requires reintroducing border controls, so be it, she said in an interview with LRT radio. […]
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Partnership with Poland should be Lithuania’s key foreign policy priority, says former ambassador to US
Many in Lithuania have been criticizing Poland‘s new government, but former Lithuanian ambassador to the US Žygimantas Pavilionis believes that the return of a strategic partnership between Poland and Lithuania should be our greatest foreign policy priority. According to Pavilionis, those now criticising the Polish government are the same people that accepted Barack Obama‘s attempts to reset the US relationship with Russia and improve the EU’s relationship with Russia. […]
Foreign affairs
Economy
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Lithuania raises €38m from telecommunications spectrum auction
Lithuanian national telecommunications regulator RRT raised €38 million from an auction of spectrum in the 900 MHz and 1,800 MHz bands for mobile phone companies. […]
Economy
Politics
Serious problems with secret criminal intelligence laws found by Seimas committee
Existing Lithuanian laws allow for political manipulation using classified criminal intelligence reports, an investigation by the Lithuanian Seimas Committee on Legal Affairs has revealed. […]
Economy
2016 budget boosts money for road development and maintenance
The road maintenance and development program (KPPP) finance estimates submitted by the Ministry of Transport and Communications were approved by the government on Monday. The amount earmarked for road development and maintenance was €454 million, or 16.8 percent, larger than it was in 2015. […]
Economy
Lithuanian exporters see no dangers in doing business with Poland
After Lithuanian economist Nerijus Mačiulis said recently that the new government in Poland made the country as unpredictable a business partner as Russia, Lithuanian businesspeople counter him by insisting they do not see any threats in doing business with the neighbouring country. […]
Economy
Veolia’s suit against Lithuania is ‘distraction’, energy minister says
Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis says that the arbitration case to be filed against Lithuania by the French group Veolia is a distraction tactic, adding that the government might counter-sue over violations by its subsidiary Vilniaus Energija. […]
Economy
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Culture
Cast and crew watch BBC’s War and Peace screening in Vilnius
The first screening of the BBC’s War & Peace in Vilnius this Saturday saw some of the heavy hitters of the Lithuanian film and culture industry mingle with the British BBC crew. With the BBC having shot this major production in Lithuania and the implementation of new tax incentives, the country’s film industry is seeing a surge. […]
Politics
Prosecutor wants Supreme Court to interview Lithuanian President in spokeswoman’s case
A State prosecutor filed an appeal against the acquittal of presidential spokeswoman Daiva Ulbinaitė on charges of leaking a state secret, stressing at the Supreme Court on Wednesday that President Dalia Grybauskaitė should also be interviewed in the case. […]
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New rail shipments to Italy to open up export routes
Lithuanian Railways has begun regular shipments between Lithuania and Italy that will open export routes for Lithuanian goods. […]