Lithuanian residents who are expected to have the lowest old-age pensions will be advised to make additional contributions to their pension fund or return to the state-run social insurer Sodra, says Finance Minister Vilius Šapoka. […]
The foreign ministers of Lithuania and Germany say that discussions of the idea of a “multiple-speed” European Union (EU), it is necessary to prevent major gaps among countries, as only a unified Europe can retain its influence on the global arena. […]
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė will Thursday award Germany’s Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen with a high state decoration, the Grand Cross of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. […]
After waiting for documents from emigrants about compulsory health insurance fees paid in foreign countries, the Lithuanian state-run social insurer, Sodra, has so far failed to check all documents and will postpone the recovery until the end of March, says Sodra chief Mindaugas Sinkevičius. […]
Czech troops in the NATO battalion being stationed in Lithuania would be a significant contribution to the consolidation of deterrence and defence, Lithuania’s Defence Raimundas Karoblis said after meeting with his Czech counterpart, Martin Stropnicki. […]
Germany’s Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel says in Vilnius he understands the Lithuanian government’s anxiety over the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) under construction in Belarus, expressing support to the goal of ensuring the plant’s security via international organizations. […]
The Lithuanian port city of Klaipėda has applied to become the European Youth Capital 2020, the city’s municipality said on Wednesday. […]
An international Baltic – Black Sea Forum will take place in Kaunas, Lithuania, on March 10, bringing together historic leaders of Central and Eastern European countries, Lithuania’s Vytautas Magnus University said. […]
Diana Varnaitė, director of the Lithuanian Cultural Heritage Department, has proposed envisaging separate funding of maintenance of the Jewish heritage, an idea supported by Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis. […]
US President Donald Trump will not derail world economy or revise its course, says Gitanas Nausėda, adviser to SEB Bankas’ president, noting that one person can cause problems but is not influential enough to bring down a growing economy. […]
Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, commander of the United States Army Europe, has applauded Lithuania’s plans of earmarking 2 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) to defence next year, emphasizing that the way of spending the money was even more important. […]
Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, commander of the United States Army Europe, has urged Russia to ensure transparency during the Zapad 2017 military exercise to be held near Lithuania’s border in September. […]
Lithuanian prosecutors have asked a court to annul capital increase deals of AmberCore DC and Arcus Novus, which are building the country’s largest privately-owned data center close to Vilnius. Intelligence services say the project could have links with the Russian Federal Security Bureau (FSB). […]
If the bribery and influence peddling suspicions brought by Lithuania’s prosecutors against MG Baltic concern operated by businessman Darius Mockus are confirmed, the business group’s operations may be temporarily suspended or it may be imposed a fine, lawyers say. Furthermore, companies of the concern could be banned from taking part in public procurement. […]
The proposal made by the Lithuanian State Defence Council to earmark 2 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) to defence next year is a political decision of principle, says Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis. […]
Lithuania could get cyber recruits and generate a reserve of people troops within the next few years, says Defence Minister Raimundas Karoblis. […]
Maintenance of state roads in Lithuania will be handed over to a single state-run company, Kelių Priežiūra (Road Maintenance), by the end of this year. Lithuania’s Transport and Communications Minister Rokas Masiulis says that restructuring of the sector had been in the plans for a long time. […]
Lithuania’s Supreme Administrative Court on Tuesday instructed the migration authorities to issue a Lithuanian passport to Alexia Gorecki- Mickiewicz , great granddaughter of poet Adomas Mickevičius, with the original spelling of her first and last names on the main page of the passport. […]
The Lithuanian State Defence Council on Tuesday suggested earmarking 2.07 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) for defence next year. […]
The level of life satisfaction among Lithuanians dropped by 5 percentage points to 70 percent in the fall of 2016 year-on-year, while the nation sees price hike as the main problem, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey. […]
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