Foreign affairs
Tribute to WWI, WWII victims paid in Vilnius
The German National Day of Mourning was marked in the cemetery of German soldiers in Vingio Park in the Lithuanian capital on Sunday. […]
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Foreign affairs
Sweden’s parliament speaker visiting Lithuania
A Swedish delegation headed by Parliamentary Speaker Urban Ahlin is visiting Lithuania on Monday. […]
Politics
Lithuanians want Skvernelis, Nauseda, Matijosaitis for president – Delfi/Spinter poll
People in Lithuania would vote for Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, economist Gitanas Nausėda and Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis in presidential elections, shows a poll published on delfi.lt news portal on Monday. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian diplomats consult foreign partners over ‘Magnitsky list’
The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry is consulting foreign partners on the names of Russian officials to be blacklisted over corruption, money laundering or human rights violations after the country’s parliament passed the so-called Magnitsky law. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania sends independence day greetings to Latvia by special coach
Lithuania is sending its greetings to Latvia by a special coach as the neighboring country will mark its 99th anniversary of independence on Saturday. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian EC member: Russia plans to take pork imports ban to political level
Russia has no plans of raising the 2014 imports ban on pork from the European Union (EU), however, plans to move the restrictions to the list of political sanctions after the unfavourable decision by the World Trade Organization (WTO), says the EU food safety commissioner Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis of Lithuania. […]
Defence
Vershbow: US could deploy another brigade in Europe
The United States may decide within the coming year to station yet another military brigade in Europe as part of the efforts to deter Russia, says Alexander Vershbow, NATO’s former deputy secretary general who now works as expert at the US international relations research centre Atlantic Council. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania’s president off to EU summit on economic inequality
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė is Friday flying to Gothenburg, Sweden, for an European Union (EU) summit that will discuss economic inequality and social security. […]
Politics
Lithuania’s Liberals, Šimašius losing popularity – BNS/RAIT poll
The Lithuanian Liberal Movement, which has been battling a leadership crisis and recently lost state funding over financing violations, is also losing the support of the voters, shows a poll conducted by the market research company RAIT for BNS Lithuania. […]
Politics
Government to discuss 3 alternatives for raising doctors’ wages – minister of healthcare
Lithuania’s government will discuss three alternatives of raising wages for doctors, Health Minister Aurelijus Veryga said on Thursday after negotiations with representatives of doctors. […]
Politics
New head appointed of Lithuania’s National Land Service
Laimonas Čiakas, currently serving as director of the 1 st Audit Department of the National Audit Office, has been picked as the new chief of the Lithuanian National Land Service after winning a competition. Čiakas, 47, will be confirmed to the post after a credibility check by the law-enforcement. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian parliament passes ‘Magnitsky act’ (Updated)
The Lithuanian parliament adopted on Thursday the so-called Magnitsky legislation banning entry to foreigners involved in large-scale corruption, money laundering or human rights violations. […]
Politics
Lithuania’s Constitutional Court opens MP Pūkas’ impeachment case in his absence
The Lithuanian Constitutional Court decided on Thursday to open MP Kęstutis Pūkas’ sexual harassment impeachment case in his absence. […]
Politics
Seimas scraps efforts to save Curonian Spit’s illegal buildings from demolition
The Lithuanian government decided on Wednesday to put an end to efforts to approve adjustments to the Curonian Spit National Park’s maintenance plan, which means that illegal buildings on the sand dune peninsula, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, will be pulled down. […]
Society
Seimas votes to award Freedom Prize to nun, dissident Sadūnaitė (Updated)
The Lithuanian parliament decided on Thursday to award the Freedom Prize to Nijolė Sadūnaitė, a Roman Catholic nun and former Soviet-time dissident. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian parliament plans to adopt ‘Magnitsky act’ Thursday
The Lithuanian parliament plans to adopt on Thursday the so-called Magnitsky legislation banning entry to foreigners involved in large-scale corruption, money laundering or human rights violations. […]
Politics
Gentvilas to run for Lithuanian Liberal Movement leader
MP Eugenijus Gentvilas, caretaker chairman of the Lithuanian Liberal Movement, has confirmed that he will run for the post of the opposition party’s leader in next month’s election. […]
Culture
Litvak painter Samuel Bak grateful to Vilniusites for his saved life
Internationally-renowned Litvak painter Samuel Bak, back in Vilnius for the opening of his museum, on Wednesday expressed his gratitude to residents of his hometown who helped him survive the Holocaust. […]
European Union
Lithuanian transport minister to propose government to rebuild tracks to Latvia
Lithuania’s Transport and Communications Ministry will suggest to the government to rebuild the railway stretch from Mažeikiai to Renge, Latvia, which recently caused the European Commission to impose a 28-million-euro fine for Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LG). […]
European Union
Heritage Foundation analysts do not view EU’s new defence deal as very serious
The new defense integration deal signed by Lithuania and the rest of the European Union (EU) earlier this week will have new practical benefit, say analysts of the United States conservative public policy research centre Heritage Foundation. […]