Opinion
Lithuania to do all it can to reset ties with Poland – ForMin
Lithuania will do everything it can to “reset” its relations with neighboring Poland, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Thursday. […]
Month: January 2017
Foreign affairs
Lithuania hosts Snow Meeting of security policy experts
Security policy experts are gathering in Lithuania on Thursday for an informal Snow Meeting to discuss the situation in the wake of the US presidential election and threats posed by Russia. […]
Economy
Minister of Environment proposes to set up single forestry enterprise
Lithuanian Environment Minister Kęstutis Navickas proposes to establish a single enterprise to manage state forests. […]
Defence
Society
Lithuania should have up to 5 state universities
The number of state universities in Lithuania has to be cut to no more than five, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Wednesday. […]
Economy
President moves to limit terms of office for state-owned cos’ CEOs
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė proposes legal amendments setting a limit of two five-year terms for chief executive officers of state enterprises and state-owned public and private limited-liability companies. […]
CORPORATE
Interview with heads of armed forces on universal conscription and more
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has declared that universal compulsory military service could already be established during the Seimas term, that is to say within the coming 3.5 years. How would this work? Is universal compulsory […]
Society
Preliminary damage of Vilnius sewage spill at EUR 450,000
The preliminary damage caused by the December sewage spill in central Vilnius stands at 450,000 euros, says Marius Svaikauskas, the head of the Vilnius Regional Environment Protection Department. […]
CORPORATE
Political parties’ chairmanships crisis – who is next?
The Seimas elections have highlighted the chairmanship problems present among Lithuanian political parties. After election results came out, Social Democrat leader and former PM Algirdas Butkevičius said that he would resign from the post of […]
CORPORATE
Will the promised relations’ “reset” with Poland occur?
Already prior to the Seimas elections, the leaders of the new government promised to “reset” Lithuanian-Polish relations. Both Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and the Seimas have rhetorically committed to this a number of times. On […]
Global LT
Foreign affairs
Seimas speaker: meetings with ambassadors a chance to bring up Jan 13 coup
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis says he is astonished by the criticism over his meetings with the Russian and Belarusian ambassadors ahead of the Freedom Defenders Day, noting that the meetings were held to remind the diplomats about their countries’ unwillingness to extradite defendants in the January 13 attempted coup trial. […]
Uncategorized
Belarus sees no problems with N-plant safety, electricity sales – ambassador in Vilnius
Belarus is convinced in the safety of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant under construction close to the Lithuanian border and sees no problems in connection to sales of electricity generated there, Belarusian Ambassador to Lithuania Alexander Korol said on Tuesday. […]
European Union
Central, Eastern European politicians urge Trump to stop concessions to Russia
Central and Eastern European politicians have urged United States President-Elect Donald Trump to stop making concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin, as he could view the steps as weaknesses and undertake provocations against the Baltic states and Poland. […]
Defence
Setting date for universal conscription too early – chief of defence
Speaking about the date of introducing universal conscription in Lithuania is still too early, says Chief of Defence Lieutenant General Jonas Vytautas Žukas. […]
CORPORATE
Jewish community‘s efforts – still fruitless
The year begins with continuing old issues and unresolved questions. One of them is the idea of a monument for Lithuanian citizens who helped rescue Jews in Vilnius. Such a monument was suggested by one […]
CORPORATE
“Peasant” and Social Democrat union – who feels “uncomfortable”?
After long meetings with both the Conservatives and Social Democrats, on November 9 the winner of the Seimas elections, the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union signed a coalition agreement with the Social Democrats. […]
Defence
PM wants universal conscription introduced during current term of office
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that the country should introduce universal military conscription during the government’s current term of office. […]
Uncategorized
Court gets no response from Gorbachev in 1991 crackdown trial
The Vilnius Regional Court has so far received no response from Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev whom it wants to testify as a witness in a mass trial related to the bloody events of January 13, 1991 in Vilnius. […]
Defence
Minister of Defence plans to set up military procurement agency
Lithuanian Defence Minister Raimundas Karoblis is planning to establish a separate agency to coordinate military purchases, saying that centralization would help ensure better controls. […]