Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives), the country’s largest opposition party, decided at its congress last Saturday to hold open election of candidates for the party’s leadership and president. […]
Lithuania’s parliament should discuss spelling of non-Lithuanian names in passports, when there is sufficient will to take the decision, says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis. […]
The Vilnius University’s Santariškės Clinic is the first one to start providing artificial insemination services after adoption of a relevant law – earlier this week, the hospital was granted a license extension, allowing it to provide services of artificial insemination and sex cell bank. […]
Belarus could be the next country targeted by Russia’s President Vladimir Putin after Ukraine, Russian opposition figure Gary Kasparov, former world chess champion currently residing in the US, has said at a Vilnius conference. […]
The Lithuanian State Audit Office has criticized some municipalities for the way of managing and distributing social housing. […]
The security of the Baltic states is not among the top 10 issues on the agenda of the new US presidential administration, says US defence expert Samuel Gardiner. […]
European Commission (EC) Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis has stated in Vilnius that Lithuania should give up some value-added tax (VAT) privileges amid projected growth of state spending, as well as improve the collection of VAT and residents’ income tax. He also stressed the substantial progress made by Lithuania in the implementation of earlier EU recommendations […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has asked the European Commission (EC) to apply a reserve clause for the country to be able to have a bigger deficit of public finance during implementation of a structural reform – the new social model. […]
The traditional St. Casimir ‘s Fair (Kaziuko mugė), one of the biggest events in spring, is starting in central and down-town Vilnius on Friday. […]
Lithuania’s Health Care Minister Aurelijus Veryga is attending an informal meeting of health ministers of the Visegrad countries, Croatia, Lithuania and Slovenia on Thursday and Friday, hoping to agree on joint acquisition of medications. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday presented Germany’s Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen with the Grand Cross of the Order for Merits to Lithuania for personal support to the development of relations between Lithuania and Germany as well as for her contribution to strengthening bilateral military cooperation. […]
Washington sees Lithuania’s efforts of boosting its own and regional security, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said in a telephone conversation with Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius on Thursday evening. […]
Three consortia of companies have applied for construction and management concession of the 90 million euro National Stadium in Vilnius, with a decision on the fourth one yet to be made, Remigijus Šimašius, mayor of the Lithuanian capital, told BNS. […]
Lithuania’s government announced plans on Thursday to introduce online voting by the end of its 2016-2020 term in office. BNS Lithuania provides you the key questions and answers: […]
The Lithuanian government led by Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis intends to make the first decisions in connection to restructuring of the pension system in the nearest future, while implementation of all reforms may take until the end of 2019, according to the measures of the government plan published on Thursday. […]
Lithuania plans to purchase new equipment to improve the protection of the state border, according to the plan of measures for the implementation of the governmental programme published on Thursday. […]
A Vilnius court has instructed the Migration Department to reconsider the asylum application from a Kurdish family. […]
Lithuania’s government will seek to legalize this year the creation of an online voting system, which should be developed by mid-2019, shows the implementation plan of the governmental program published on Thursday. […]
After suffering a defeat in the October 2016 general elections and having change of leadership, the Labour Party has lost over 1,000 members over the past six months, which is the biggest loss among all political parties of Lithuania. […]
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