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Defence

Lithuania’s DefMin proposes improving soldier’s social security, raising pay – media

Lithuania’s Ministry of National Defense is proposing changing soldiers’ pay system and improving their social security, the Lietuvos Žinios daily writes. […]

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Foreign affairs

Ratification of EU-Canada trade deal makes headway in Seimas

After 10 months of discussions in parliamentary committees, ratifiacion of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between the European Union and Canada is making headway in the Lithuanian parliament. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
CORPORATE

A fundamental question on Grybauskaitė‘s path to the peak of the EU

European Union institution staff see Dalia Grybauskaitė as one of the favourites to become the head of the European Council next year, however her own intentions are currently unknown. “The president refuses to comment on […]

The Devil's Bride by Arūnas Žebriūnas_Photo by Rimvydas Strikauskas, from the archive of The Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Cinema Museum
Culture

Baltic Films and Symposium on Baltic Cinema at goEast Festival in Germany

In April, for a whole week the German city of Wiesbaden becomes a meeting point and a promotion platform for Central and Eastern European film and filmmakers. The 18th goEast festival, which kicked off yesterday, is shining a spotlight on the Baltic States with a symposium, “Hybrid Identities – Baltic Cinema”, dedicated to the national cinemas of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, their histories, pursuits of national and cultural identities. The festival’s programme also includes some of the key recent titles of Baltic cinema. The project is part of a wide-ranging tripartite programme with which the Baltic States present their cinemas to Europe on the occasion of their centenary of statehood. […]

Vygaudas Ušackas, Žygimantas Pavilionis
CORPORATE

Intense struggle between Ušackas and Pavilionis: new weapons coming out

Vygaudas Ušackas, who is seeking to become the Conservative candidate in the looming presidential elections, has applied a new tactic – praising President Dalia Grybauskaitė. Meanwhile his rival Žygimantas Pavilionis continues seeking to show that […]