The Baltic states can expect support of the European Union (EU) to their bid of synchronizing their electricity grids with Western Europe in this and the next multiannual budget, if the decision on the interconnections is made by mid-2018, says Arnoldas Pranckevičius, the head of the European Commission‘s (EC) mission in Lithuania. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has sent the world’s smallest nativity scene to Pope Francis as a unique Christmas gift created by Lithuanian scientists and students. […]
The Vilnius-based European Humanities University (EHU), whose students are mostly from Belarus, has received a negative assessment from the Lithuanian Centre for Quality Assessment in Higher Education, or SKVC. […]
Lithuanian MP Mindaugas Bastys breached his oath of office and committed a gross violation of the Constitution by concealing his ties with former KGB agent Piotr Voyeiko, the Constitutional Court ruled on Friday. […]
The Lithuanian defense minister had no grounds to suspend Colonel Audronis Navickas, a former Lithuanian Air Force commander, from his duties during an investigation into plans to send military helicopters to Russia for repairs, the Vilnius Regional Administrative Court ruled on Friday. […]
This year the European Union marks the 60 years anniversary of the Rome Agreement which became the starting point of European integration, at the same time with the EU facing serious internal and external challenges, […]
The new Energy Strategy proposed by the Government has a great vision. The expectation is that 30 years later we will be energy self-sufficient almost exclusively in renewables. There will be no energy waste as […]
Lithuania’s vote on a UN resolution on Jerusalem reflects the European Union‘s common position that the status of the city has to be decided through negotiations, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said on Friday evening. […]
Israel is disappointed at Lithuania’s unexpected decision to vote in favour of a UN resolution rejecting US President Donald Trump‘s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the country’s ambassador to Vilnius said. […]
Russia-based Kaspersky Lab has said that it considers contesting the Lithuanian government’s decision to restrict the use of its software on sensitive computers, Reuters reported on Thursday. […]
Lithuania’s parliamentarians on Thursday endorsed the decision taken by the cabinet earlier this week, suggesting that Lithuania should be free to decide on the twice-yearly clock shift. […]
Lithuania’s law-enforcement have closed a 589-day investigation into political corruption allegations of one of the country’s largest business concerns MG Baltic, the Liberal Movement and the Labour Party. […]
Lithuania’s law-enforcement on Thursday announced having completed the pre-trial investigation in the political corruption case of one of the country’s largest business concerns MG Baltic and two political parties, the Liberal Movement and the Labour Party. […]
Lithuania on Thursday unexpectedly voted in favor of a UN resolution rejecting US President Donald Trump‘s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, thus defying Washington’s warnings and showing solidarity with the EU‘s major powers. […]
Life in the Baltic lands in the middle ages was full of dangers. In the 13th century, the old rivalries between the local tribes were accompanied by fights against the Knights of the Cross, and the Knights of the Sword. By comparing the art of warfare practised by local tribes and alien Germans, one can notice considerable differences in technical issues, such as weaponry, fortifications, and strategies, as well as in warfare customs. In this respect, the Livonian Chronicle by Henry of Latvia is particularly telling. While Germans and other western Christians would adhere to the knightly rules of war in Livonia, local Baltic and Finno-Ugric peoples acted very much like the barbarians did during the times of the Great Migration of the Nations. […]
Lithuania’s Competition Council on Thursday imposed a maximum fine of 12.2 million euros for a cartel deal among construction companies that took part in Vilnius school and kindergarten renovation tenders. […]
“Wages are being raised for prosecutors in hopes that their work quality will improve, while after teachers requested pay raises, they were told to work better; this sounds like a pathetic wordplay,” former conservative Prime […]
The corruption suspicions brought by Lithuania’s law-enforcement against MG Baltic concern and two political parties have no major effect upon the concern’s operations, Darius Mockus, president and owner of MG Baltic, told Verslo Žinios business daily. […]
Lithuanian MP Linas Balsys has returned to work after a break of over a month, saying that he has undergone medical treatment. […]
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