Defence
Lithuanian president backs Macron’s idea of EU rapid reaction force
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė supports French President Emmanuel Macron‘s idea to create an EU rapid reaction force. […]
Year: 2018
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Foreign affairs
Baltic Symbolism exhibition opens at Musee d’Orsay in Paris
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, together with French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron and the Latvian and Estonian presidents, on Monday opened a Baltic Symbolism exhibition at the Musee d’Orsay in Paris. […]
Society
Jurbarkas Synagogue Square Memorial to revive Lithuanian-Jewish common history
The creators of the Synagogue Square Memorial in Jurbarkas say that the monument to the western Lithuanian town’s Jewish community will become part of the town’s modern history and will revive the common history of Jews and Lithuanians. […]
Politics
Lithuanian agriculture minister says he’d resign if PM lost confidence in him
Lithuanian Agriculture Minister Bronius Markauskas says that he would resign right away if Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis lost confidence in him. […]
Politics
Grybauskaitė: Lithuania to continue reforms after joining OECD
President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that Lithuania will continue reforms after joining the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian foreign minister visits Saudi Arabia
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius is paying a working visit to Saudi Arabia on Monday through Friday. […]
Economy
Lithuania to issue green bonds
Lithuania’s government on Monday decided to issue green bonds on the domestic market, with the first issue worth 68 million euros to be launched in late April. […]
Politics
Mazuronis going to presidential election to step up natl spirit
Lithuanian MEP Valentinas Mazuronis who intends to run as an independent candidate for the 2019 presidential elections says his program is built on the idea of national spirit. […]
Society
Emigration from Lithuania down, more people return in Q1 y/y – statistics
Emigration from Lithuania in the first quarter of 2018 declined by a third from the same period last year, with more emigrants returning, Statistics Lithuania said in its latest report. […]
Society
Over EUR 20 mln envisaged for foreign research projects in Lithuania
Some 20.5 million euros in European Union (EU) investments will be earmarked to projects conducted in Lithuania by foreign scientists and Lithuanian scientists working abroad until 2020. […]
Politics
Doubts about agrimin’s operations discredit Lithuanian govt’s reputation – president
The shadows of abuse on Lithuania’s Agriculture Minister Bronius Markauskas and his family discredit him and damages the reputation of the rest of the government, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
CORPORATE
Linkevičius on Trump: responses based on real actions, not words
The president was accompanied by two ministers in Washington – the minister of national defence and minister of foreign affairs. Minister of Economy Virginijus Sinkevičius travelled together with a delegation of businessmen. Minister of Foreign […]
Economy
Lithuania finalizes OECD membership talks
Lithuania on Monday officially finalized its membership talks with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). […]
CORPORATE
Kęstutis Girnius. Skvernelis – a convenient idiot for the Kremlin?
This question arose after listening to M. Laurinavičius and Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius‘ discussion on the talk show Dėmesio Centre. The main piece of evidence presented is this note by the prime minister. […]
Politics
Defense minister suggests testing e-voting in elder elections
Lithuania’s Defense Ministry in charge of cyber security has suggested first of all testing electronic voting in election of elders before deciding on using the system during parliamentary elections. […]
Politics
Lithuania’s Order and Justice Party plans no presidential candidate, Paksas again eyes EP
Lithuania’s opposition Order and Justice party plans to nominate no candidate for the 2019 presidential election, and the party’s former leader Rolandas Paksas will be the first candidate on the list for elections to the European Parliament. […]
Society
Lithuanian Blood Center chief suspected of helping businesses monopolize plasma collection
Joana Bikulčienė, top executive of the Lithuanian National Blood Center who has been detained for two weeks, is suspected of aiming to help a private company to monopolize the collection of blood plasma and supply of blood constituents in Lithuania. […]
Foreign affairs
It is time to commemorate Boris Nemtsov in Vilnius
Andrei Sakharov, the great Russian physicist, humanist and Nobel Prize winner, once remarked that a government that violates the rights of its own citizens at home inevitably also poses a threat to the international order. The Soviet government has shown this assertion to be true—as has Vladimir Putin’s government in today’s Russia. […]
CORPORATE
Žygimantas Pavilionis. Another important victory, this time in Washington
Skilled detractors of the US in Lithuania and anti-American policy-makers bent on seeding discord by sheer mention of the Kremlin are beside themselves with rage as they criticise our President’s meeting in Washington and the […]