Andrius Kubilius
Foreign affairs

Lithuania’s Kubilius urges to keep hope about Marshall Plan for Ukraine

Lithuanian MP Andrius Kubilius on Friday suggested that hopes regarding the Marshall Plan for Ukraine should not be buried regardless of Brussels’ cautious stance on the development of the new financial mechanism and the statement by Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė that Kiev should make more efficient use of the current aid. […]

Astravyets NPP construction
Foreign affairs

Minsk says it’s open to cooperation with EU on N-plant project

Belarus says that it is open to cooperation with the European Union on its nuclear power plant, a project that Lithuania says is unsafe. […]

Saulius Skvernelis
Defence

Lithuania’s defence budget to grow steadily in future – PM

Lithuania’s national defense budget will not stop growing after reaching 2 percent of GDP next year, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Thursday. […]

Asta Kubilienė
Politics

Širinskienė, Kubilienė, Šalaševičiūtė approved as heads of Seimas panels

Lithuania’s parliament on Thursday approved former health minister Rimantė Šalaševičiūtė as chairwoman of the parliamentary Social Affairs and Labour Committee, Agnė Širinskienė of the Farmers and Greens Union as the head of the Committee on Legal Affairs and another LFGU MP Asta Kubilienė as head of the Health Affairs Committee. […]