Foreign affairs
Seimas speaker readying to visit Poland
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis is going to Warsaw later this week to deliver a speech at the Polish parliament and meet with its leaders. […]
Year: 2018
Society
Lithuanians’ optimism about future at lowest level since 2011 – Eurobarometer
The number of Lithuanians expecting the next year to be better than the previous one has decline over the past year, with the indicator dropping to the lowest level since 2011, shows the latest Eurobarometer survey. […]
Society
Record immigration reported in Lithuania, major emigration down – statistics
Immigration numbers are setting new records in Lithuania, with the major wave of emigration slightly declining, shows data provided to BNS by Statistics Lithuania. […]
CORPORATE
Lithuania’s road to becoming a transit country for Chinese rail cargo
Lietuvos Geležinkeliai received only five cargo trains from China last year despite expecting several tens. A communications specialist from the company, Domas Jurevičius told LRT.lt that this occurred because it takes a great deal of […]
European Union
Guy Verhofstadt Brings his EU reform ideas to Vilnius
A large enthusiast and captivated audience came out on a very cold Saturday afternoon to hear former Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt speak at the annual Vilnius Book Fair. Verhofstadt is currently fraction leader of the Liberal Group in the European parliament. However, on Saturday his main message were his ideas for European reform and to make the EU stronger, more efficient, and to avoid more Brexit-like defections of the world’s largest and most powerful trading block. […]
Politics
President, Kaunas mayor, PM Lithuania’s most popular politicians – poll
President Dalia Grybauskaitė, Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis and Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis continue topping the list of Lithuania’s most popular politicians, shows a Vilmorus poll published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]
Society
Confidence in Lithuania’s education system lowest in 20 yrs – Vilmorus/Lietuvos Rytas poll
The confidence of the Lithuanian population in the country’s education system is currently at the lowest level over the past two decades, shows a survey by Vilmorus published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]
Society
Migration Department refuses residence permits to 100 foreigners
Lithuania’s Migration Department has refused issuing residence permits to around 100 foreigners after cracking a plot for their arrival for sham volunteering. […]
Politics
SocDems hit lowest rating since 2016 elections – Vilmorus/Lietuvos Rytas poll
Confidence in Lithuania’s opposition Social Democrats is currently at the lowest level since the 2016 parliamentary elections, while the minority conservatives and the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union remain at the top of the popularity list, shows a Vilmorus survey published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]
Society
US Justice Dept: Venckiene in govt custody, no further detail
The United States Department of Justice last Friday confirmed detention of Lithuania’s former MP Neringa Venckienė, however, noted that no further detail would be provided. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania congratulates Estonia on centenary
Lithuania is marking on Saturday the centenary of the state of Estonia. […]
European Union
Lithuania seeks equal direct payments for farmers – Grybauskaitė in Brussels
Lithuania seeks that direct payments to its farmers are as close as possible to those received by their counterparts in the EU’s “old” member states, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said at a informal meeting of EU leaders in Brussels on Friday. […]
Politics
Former Kaunas mayor Kupčinskas to replace Langaitis in Seimas
Andrius Kupčinskas, a former mayor of Lithuania’s second-biggest city of Kaunas, will likely replace Tadas Langaitis in the Seimas after the latter announced on Friday his decision to resign as a member of the parliament. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian president sings Estonian patriotic song as centennial greeting
President Dalia Grybauskaitė and a group of popular Lithuanian performers have recorded a special musical greeting to Estonia, which celebrates the centennial of its statehood. […]
Politics
Opposition MP Langaitis says he’s leaving Seimas (Updated)
Tadas Langaitis of the conservative Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats‘ political group in the Seimas on Friday announced his decision to resign as a member of the parliament, saying that “it is not possible to work constructively” with the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU). […]
CORPORATE
Not even a third of refugees accepted in Lithuania remain
With a few years passing after the first refugees were transferred to Lithuania, more than 70% of all those transferred have already made their departure from the country and from July, no new individuals with […]
Society
100 Volunteers from Vilnius University join Israeli Embassy’s “Perach” initiative
Vilnius University (VU) together with Embassy of Israel in Lithuania started a joined student mentorship program “Kelrodė žvaigždė“ (The Guiding Star). One hundred VU students volunteered to become friends and mentors to 9-12 year old children from needy and socially excluded families, the VU Communications and Marketing Department wrote in a press release […]
Society
Flu kills 7 people in Lithuania this season
Seven people have died of influenza in Lithuania this season and the number of ill pregnant women is on the rise, the National Public Health Centre said. […]
Politics
Health minister suggests organ donation consent when receiving IDs
Lithuania’s Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga has suggested envisaging a duty for persons to decide on organ donation when applying for identification documents. […]
Society
Sugihara Foundation names Lithuanian playwright Ivaškevičius Person of Tolerance
Sugihara Foundation – Diplomats for Life has named Lithuanian writer and playwright Marius Ivaškevičius as the Person of Tolerance of 2017, the Vytautas Magnus University said on Friday. […]