The presence of US troops in the region is already virtually permanent, General Curtis M. Scaparrotti, NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander Europe said in Vilnius on Thursday, as Lithuania has asked for deployment of troops in its territory on permanent, not rotational basis. […]
Backstage operations of Gintautas Kevišas, the director of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater (LNOBT), have turned into a “shadow play” and fall short of the requirement of transparent management and responsibility of an institution’s chief, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
Tourists spend more nights in Lithuania than in Latvia or Estonia. According to EUROSTAT, the official statistical office of the European Union, in 2016 the number of overnight stays of tourists (local as well as foreign) who stayed in Lithuanian accommodation establishments, including rural tourism, was the largest in the Baltic states and comprised 7 million, while in Estonia and Latvia this number amounted to 6.2 million and 4.4 million respectively, the State Department of Tourism reported in a press release.
announced in a press release. […]
Lithuania’s Ambassador to Russia Remigijus Motuzas and officials of the Foreign Ministry have visited a memorial place including graves of a few Lithuanian interwar ministers in the outskirts of Moscow. […]
While constructing the first electricity transfer line of LitPol Link, Poland has faced such difficulties that the country is unwilling to construct a second such line, biznesalert.pl claims, citing the head of the Polish electricity […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday congratulated the Netherlands following moderate politicians’ victory in Wednesday’s parliamentary election. […]
In cooperation with the UK law-enforcement, the Lithuanian Special Investigation Service (STT) is conducting a large-scale corruption and bribery investigation involving, among other things, a 200-million-euro project carried out by France’s engineering group Alstom at the Lithuanian Power Plant in Elektrėnai, STT spokeswoman Renata Saulytė has confirmed. […]
The Association of Honorary Consuls in Lithuania held on Wednesday their yearly meeting in Vilnius Forty-four honorary consuls represent a number of foreign countries in Lithuania. Many represent countries that do not have Embassies or other forms of diplomatic representation in the country. Several do represent countries that have an embassy in Vilnius, but represent a country in cities outside Vilnius, such as Kaunas or Klaipėda. […]
Moderate political parties’ success in the Dutch parliamentary election shows that Europe may be able to withstand rising far-right populism, but it is too early to say that tensions have subsided, Lithuanian political analysts said on Thursday. […]
On 22 March 2017 Denmark’s special envoy, Lars Rebien Sørensen, will be visiting Lithuania to present the Danish candidacy for hosting European Medicines Agency (EMA) and draw attention to the advantages of the Danish bid. He will meet with Lithuanian high level officials in order to explain why Denmark is working towards getting the EMA relocated from London to Copenhagen. the Danish Embassy in Vilnius announced in a press release. […]
Representatives of the Lithuanian government, employers and trade unions signed an agreement on a number of issues during the last meeting of the Tripartite Council on Wednesday, the Social Security and Labour Ministry said. […]
Three young women on Wednesday filed a complaint with the Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office, claiming that they had been sexually harassed by Kęstutis Pūkas, a member of the Seimas. […]
The Social Democrat party’s ratings show that the people do not trust in the Social Democrat party (LSDP) and are not prepared to vote for it. Furthermore, the party’s ratings which do not even reach […]
The Seimas Commission for Ethics and Procedures has decided to propose that the Lithuanian parliament initiate impeachment proceedings against MP Kęstutis Pūkas of the Order and Justice party amid suspicions that he might have breached the oath and violated the Constitution. […]
Hot water temperatures in all apartment blocks in Vilnius will be temporarily raised to carry out a thermal disinfection of the hot water systems after three people infected with Legionnaires’ disease have died in the Lithuanian capital, the local authority’s Emergency Commission decided on Wednesday. […]
Traditional and Renewable Energy Forum will be held for the sixth time in Vilnius on 26 April. Each year the event brings together energy sector leaders and is dedicated to provide a strategic energy outlook in the Baltic region, discuss the issues of regional cooperation, analyse changes taking place in the gas, electricity and renewable’s sector. […]
Two impeachment processes are beginning in Seimas. Member of Seimas Mindaugas Bastys is suspected of having represented the interests of the Russian Federation and thus breached his oath, meanwhile Kęstutis Pūkas has been accused of […]
Lithuania’s parliament adopted amendments allowing members of the Riflemen’s Union to keep semi -automatic guns in their homes last summer, however, not a single rifleman has been granted a permit yet. […]
Vilnius police have cracked a heroin supply channel from the Middle East to the Roma settlement in the Lithuanian capital organized and conducted by a Tajik national in close contacts with Roma people in Lithuania. […]
The Lithuanian Prosecutor General’s Office has decided to annul 38 out of the 1,328 findings in 2016 and 2017 cases of violence against small children where the investigations were dropped. […]
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