European Union
Lithuanian leaders condemn Manchester terror attack
Lithuania’s leaders on Tuesday condemned a suspected terror attack at a pop concert in the English city of Manchester that killed at least 22 people. […]
Year: 2017
Defence
Society
Lithuanian language watchdog backs original name spelling on ID document’s main page
The Lithuanian language watchdog proposes to allow using non-Lithuanian Latin-based characters for spelling names on the main page of personal identity documents. […]
Defence
Government to set up national security commission
Government officials on Monday confirmed plans to establish a National Security Commission to help deal with crises. […]
Politics
MEP Guoga on why party democracy is overhauled
Representative democracy lives from its representatives. Ideally, wise and responsibly acting men and women, who have already achieved something in life and have now decided to give something back to society and patriotically serve their country and its people. This is the republican ideal that Seneca imagined and wrote about for their respective societies. Dwight D. Eisenhower famously said: “Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen, who would protect the rights and privileges of free men,” MEP Antanas Guoga. […]
Economy
EU commission recognizes Lithuania’s social model as structural reform
The European Commission has recognized Lithuania’s so-called social model package, including its new Labour Code, as a structural reform and granted the country the requested flexibility in meeting its public deficit target. […]
Society
Police set to buy new boat for counter-terror operations at sea
Lithuanian police are buying a new motor boat that the anti-terrorist operations unit Aras will use for operations at open sea. […]
Society
Judaica Research Center opens in Lithuanian national library
The Judaica Research Center is opening in the Martynas Mazvydas National Library in Vilnius on Monday. […]
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Russian oppositionists in Vilnius: we want to change Russia, not the tsar
Russian opposition figures say that they want to change Russia, rather than replace its leaders. […]
CORPORATE
Analysis of Karbauskis’ ultimatum to the Social Democrats
Chairman of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) Ramūnas Karbauskis isn’t backing down: will demand that the Social Democrats support all the proposed restrictions on the alcohol sales. Otherwise, R. Karbauskis warns that there […]
Politics
Govt coalition’s fate may hinge on vote on alcohol restrictions – Karbauskis
The fate of Lithuania’s ruling coalition may depend on how the Social Democrats vote on a package of measures aimed at curbing alcohol consumption, Ramūnas Karbauskis, the leader of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), the bigger party in the coalition, said on May 19. […]
CORPORATE
Poll: Kaunas Mayor Matijošaitis’ popularity is on the rise
The ratings of Kaunas mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis are growing, Vladas Gaidys, who is the director of public opinion and market research centre „Vilmorus” said to LRT radio. This politician rose from the sixth place to […]
CORPORATE
Conservatives on counter attack: do we still have a Government
Leader of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats Gabrielius Landsbergis when talking about the increasingly stopping Government reforms retorted: there is no majority in the Parliament and Saulius Skvernelis is leading a minority Government. […]
Defence
NATO communications exercise gets underway in Lithuania
Around 1,200 troops from 25 NATO member states are taking part in the communications units exercise Steadfast Cobalt, which officially got underway in Lithuania on Sunday. […]
Society
Economy
Former VU rector Juodka elected president of Employers’ Confederation
Benediktas Juodka, a former rector of Vilnius University and member of the Seimas, on May 19 was elected president of the Lithuanian Employers’ Confederation, or LDK, for a four-year term. […]
Politics
Popularity of ruling party on decline – poll
The popularity of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) and its leaders is on the decline, according to the latest opinion poll conducted by Vilmorus and published by the daily Lietuvos Rytas on Saturday. […]
Politics
Lithuania’s Constitutional Court opens MP Pukas impeachment case
Lithuania’s Constitutional Court on Friday approved for consideration the case of MP Kestutis Pukas charged with sexual harassment. […]
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Scandalous alcohol data is analyzed: there is an important mistake in formulas and conclusions
Lithuania has some of the strictest alcohol control restrictions now but alcohol consumption in the country remains very high, says the Chairman of the public institution “European Social, Legal and Economic Projects” (ESTEP) Klaudijus Maniokas. […]
Foreign affairs