The European Parliament (EP) on Thursday denounced the Belarusian and Russian response to the wave of protests in the countries, also expressing concern that the European Union’s (EU) support to Belarus could be used for financing the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) close to Lithuania’s borders. […]
Lithuania has joined Poland‘s appeal against the European Commission’s decision to give Russia’s Gazprom more capacity on a branch of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in Germany, with the government saying that Brussels’ move may increase Europe’s dependence on Russian gas and harm Ukraine. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says he sees no conflict with the political group of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union and its leader Ramūnas Karbauskis, pledging to include more group members in drafting of decisions in the future to facilitate smoother operations. […]
The Lithuania’s Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) is riddled with tensions over disagreements, fuel to the fire was thrown by not the first publicly unannounced meeting between the Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and the leader […]
Heating prices in Vilnius should grow by 8.2 percent from June, the National Commission for Energy Control and Prices decided on Thursday. However, after the ruling coalition decided to cancel the value-added tax privilege (9 pct), the heating prices in Lithuania’s capital city should climb much higher. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has dismissed the public discussions of the ruling coalition about split as a mistake, adding that it was the ruling bloc that had to address the situation and take the responsibility for the tensions rather than shift it upon the opposition. […]
Lithuanian Social Democrats (LSDP) this week for the first time is holding direct elections for their leader. They have needed a change for a while now – and not only because their ratings are plummeting. […]
Effective German cooperation with the Lithuanians became a death trap for the Jews of Lithuania. In Lithuania it was patriots – ethnic nationalists – who killed the Jews in the hopes of creating a strong ethnic state without Jews, Russians and Poles. This is what eminent German historian Dr. Christoph Dieckmann said in an exclusive interview with DELFI. Dr. Dieckmann who works at the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt am Main wrote the book “Germany’s Occupation Policy in Lithuania from 1941 to 1944”. […]
Algirdas Butkevičius, the incumbent chairman of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), expects that Vilnius Vice-Mayor Gintautas Paluckas and Economy Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius will face each other in a runoff election for the post of the party’s leader. […]
Lithuanian Economy Minister Mindaugas Sinkevičius, who is running for leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), proposes to introduce gender quotas for currently male-dominated management boards at state-owned and municipal companies. […]
A facsimile of Lithuania’s 1918 Act of Independence on Thursday will be handed over to the Martynas Mažvydas National Library in Vilnius to be put on display. […]
Lithuanian politicians say that higher wages may stop Lithuanians from leaving their country, but businesses argue that such steps as revamping the education and tax systems and cutting back on the state bureaucracy might put emigration on a declining patch, the business daily Verslo Žinios reported on Thursday. […]
As the European Union is reinforcing its border controls from April 7 to enhance security, all people entering or leaving the EU, including citizens of the bloc’s member states, will have their documents checked against various registers and databases on lost and stolen documents, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Thursday. […]
The Lithuanian government on Wednesday approved in principle proposals that call for further restricting the hours of sale of alcohol and banning alcohol advertising. Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that the government managed to reach a compromise. […]
Lithuania’s general government budget balance last year moved into positive territory for the first time in 26 years and Finance Minister Vilius Šapoka says that a budget surplus is possible in the future too. […]
Members of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) on Thursday start voting in the party’s first-ever direct leadership election. […]
The Lithuanian parliament’s committee that is probing Social Democratic MP Mindaugas Bastys‘ ties with Russia’s businesses and security services and Lithuania’s underworld is asking the State Security Department to make public some additional information about the politician. […]
In the report of threats to the national security only few of the 38 pages are dedicated to terrorism. It has stated that last year the threat of terrorism in Europe was huge and the […]
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