Lithuania, Latvia to jointly purchase pneumococcal vaccine
Lithuania and Latvia have issued a joint international tender to purchase a pneumococcal vaccine, the Lithuanian National Health Insurance Fund said on Tuesday. […]
Year: 2017
Politics
Pūkas, Bastys discrediting Seimas – President
Lithuania’s MP Kęstutis Pūkas probed on sexual harassment suspicions and MP Mindaugas Bastys who is suspected of ties with Russian energy figures both discredit the country’s parliament, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday. […]
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Foreign Minister dismisses Lukashenko’s accusations to Lithuania as fiction
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius has dismissed the statement by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko about training of armed provokers in Lithuania as fiction out of the blue. […]
CORPORATE
100 days of government – no major fallout yet, but SocDems already obstructive
The government can no longer hide from criticism – more than a hundred days have passed since the ministerial cabinet swore in. During this period the government programme was prepared, as well as its action […]
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Poland’s boycott of Astravyets electricity proves it as threat – President
Poland‘s decision not to buy electricity generated at the Astravyets nuclear power plant (NPP) under construction in Belarus confirms the Lithuanian stance that the utility threatens the whole region, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
Politics
President: what matters are reforms, not stability of Government
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that it is not important for her whether or not the ruling coalition is stable and expects that the opposition will support the government’s key reforms. […]
CORPORATE
Engine of economy is being suffocated by inequality of income
While some citizens experience growth in their income and they can afford more things, for others the prices are becoming too high and they are forced to decrease their consumption. “We know that consumption is […]
Foreign affairs
Society
First refugee family relocated to Lithuania lose their residence permit
The Iraqis who in December 2015 became the first refugee family relocated to Lithuania under the EU’s resettlement program have lost their residence permit as they failed to return to the country from Sweden within six months. […]
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Three Farmer coalition scenarios – how would it proceed?
The fracturing Social Democrat – Farmer Greens coalition has clashed over forestry reform. The Farmer group has already vocally started reconsidering the coalition, which raises the question – what plan do the election victors have […]
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Baltic formins to meet with Tillerson in Washington next week
The Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian foreign ministers are to meet with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Washington next week. […]
Defence
Dutch troops to join NATO’s battalion in Lithuania
Dutch troops are coming to Lithuania this week for their deployment in the country as part of NATO’s multinational battalion, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said. […]
Politics
Government coalition continues work, SocDems to back state forests reform
The government coalition of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) and the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) continues its work and will seek to make their cooperation smoother, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said after a meeting of the two parties’ coordinating council on Monday evening. […]
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Lithuania gets reinforcement from Poland in fight against Belarus’ N-plant
Poland became Lithuania’s first ally in its efforts to stop the construction of the Russian state corporation Rosatom‘s nuclear power plant in Belarus when it stated its intentions not to purchase electricity from the facility under construction in Astravyets, just 50 kilometers from Vilnius, Lithuanian politicians and experts said on Monday. […]
Politics
SocDems say Farmers have to say if they need them in coalition
The leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) on Monday expressed surprise at Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis‘ remarks that the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) has to rely on the opposition to pass the government’s reforms through the Seimas, saying that it is the LFGU that has to say if they need the Social Democrats as a ruling coalition partner. […]
Politics
Conservatives call coalition ‘dysfunctional’, say open to talks on cooperation
Lithuania’s current government coalition of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU) and the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) is not functioning properly, the leader of the conservative Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats said on Monday, adding that Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis can expect the opposition’s support to pass key reforms through the parliament. […]
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We are the Russia’s information colony still
Murky dreams or threats to national security had an impact, but Petras Gražulis with Kęstutis Pūkas and five other companions from Order and Justice, the Farmer Greens, the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania – […]
Economy
New Labour Code to take effect in July – PM
Enforcement of Lithuania’s new Labour Code liberalizing the labor relations will not be postponed again, says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, adding that the document will take effect in July. […]
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Belarus may have to reconsider Astravyets N-plant project – PM
The Polish decision not to buy electricity from the Astravyets nuclear power plant (NPP) under construction in Belarus shows that the market may be closed for the Belarusian electricity, says Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis. […]
CORPORATE
The drift
Numerous politicians and diplomats have said several times that despite the fact that we have reached our goals with hard work, once we became members of NATO and the European Union, we have lost ourselves. […]