BNS, Author at the Lithuania Tribune

Poland’s Solaris to supply 150 new buses to Vilnius

October 10, 2017 BNS 0

Polish company Solaris Bus & Coach and Luminor bank will deliver 150 new city buses for 40.486 million euros to the city of Vilnius next year. […]

Juknevičienė re-elected as vice-chair of NATO Parliament Assembly

October 10, 2017 BNS 0

Rasa Juknevičienė, a member of the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (conservatives), has been re-elected as vice-president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly for another year during the assembly’s session in Bucharest. […]

Lithuania’s year after Seimas elections: 5 reforms, 5 scandals, 5 challenges

October 9, 2017 BNS 0

Monday marks a year since the first round of Lithuania’s parliamentary elections. BNS provides an overview of the key decisions taken by the new parliament, as well as the scandals it faced and the challenges it will still have to cope with. […]

NATO fighter-jets escorting Russian fighter-jet

NATO fighter-jets scrambled once from Lithuania last week over 2 Russian warplanes

October 9, 2017 BNS 0

NATO fighter aircraft conducting the NATO air-policing mission in the Baltic states were scrambled once from Lithuania last week to intercept military aircraft of the Russian Federation in the international airspace over the Baltic Sea. […]

Lithuania’s 2018 budget to be surplus with higher spending

October 9, 2017 BNS 0

Lithuania’s 2018 state budget will be a surplus, and its spending will grow from this year, says Finance Minister Vilius Šapoka, however, refusing to specify any budget-related figures. […]

Families of Lithuanians killed in 2016 landslide in Norway going to court for compensation

October 9, 2017 BNS 0

After Norwegian police established that the landslide that killed three Lithuanian workers formed as a result of landwork in the area, families of the killed workers intend to go to court for compensations. […]

Lithuania’s Zingeris nominated for PACE president

October 9, 2017 BNS 0

Emanuelis Zingeris, a member of the Lithuanian parliamentary delegation at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), has been nominated as candidate for PACE president, the MP’s office said. […]

Russian border guard released in courtroom after border violation

October 9, 2017 BNS 0

A Šakiai court on Monday found Russian border guard Ruslan Peregud guilty of unlawfully entering Lithuania. As the man had already spent 30 days in detention, the time was included in the penalty term, therefore, he was released in courtroom as having already served his sentence. […]

The English football fans under watch in Vilnius

English football fan in custody in Vilnius after bar brawl

October 9, 2017 BNS 0

A drunk British citizen was detained in Vilnius in early hours of Sunday, local police said. […]

Trucks at the Belorussian Lithuanian border

System updates cause truck lines on Lithuania-Belarus border

October 9, 2017 BNS 0

Nearly 1,000 trucks lined up at the border to enter Lithuania from Belarus on Monday morning due to system updates in Lithuanian checkpoints. […]

Visvaldas Matijošaitis, Gitanas Nausėda, Saulius Skvernelis

Lithuanians want Skvernelis, Nausėda, Matijošaitis for president

October 9, 2017 BNS 0

Lithuanian voters would cast most votes for Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis, SEB bank president’s adviser Gitanas Nausėda and Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis in presidential elections, shows an opinion poll published on delfi.lt news portal on Monday. […]

August usage of mobile data abroad up in Lithuania

October 9, 2017 BNS 0

The usage of Lithuanian mobile connection data abroad continued growing in August, shows data from the three largest mobile operators. The growth was a result of users taking vacations abroad, as well as the new roaming regulation rules in effect in the European Union (EU) since mid-June that unified prices for services on domestic and foreign markets. […]

Polish Sejm defense panel chief: Patriot should also defend Lithuania’s airspace

October 9, 2017 BNS 0

The Patriot anti-missile defense systems, which Poland plans to purchase, should also defend the airspace of Lithuania, says Michal Jach, chairman of the Polish Sejm Defense Committee. […]

SocDems ethics guards recommend expulsion of 10 SocDem MPs

October 9, 2017 BNS 0

The Ethics and Procedures Commission of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party on Saturday proposed expelling ten of the party’s members who disobeyed the council’s decision to leave the ruling coalition with the Farmers and Greens Union. […]

Government opens debates in 2018 budget draft

October 9, 2017 BNS 0

Lithuania’s government is this week opening debates into the 2018 budget draft, with the document to be presented to ministers on Monday before being discussed at the government’s meeting on Wednesday. […]

Lithuania, India to sign extradition pact

October 9, 2017 BNS 0

Lithuania and India will next week sign an extradition treaty, which envisages conditions and procedures of mutual handover of offenders. […]

Lithuania's Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Pope Francis in the Vatican on October 6

PM, Pope Francis discuss aid to families, boosting birth rate

October 9, 2017 BNS 0

Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Pope Francis on Friday discussed emigration challenges, humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, social compassion to the impoverished and affected, assistance to families and birth rate promotion issues, the government said. […]