Lithuania will show solidarity and will contribute to solving the refugee crisis, but it does not support quotas, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said on Saturday, adding that the causes of the crisis must be addressed, rather than just dealing with the consequences. […]
Lithuania will probably have to take in more refugees than initially planned, the country’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Friday. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius will pay a visit to Georgia where the shock replacement of the foreign minister last week has raised doubts about the government’s transparency. […]
Passenger screening procedures have been stepped up at the Lithuanian airports in Vilnius, Kaunas and Palanga since September 1, with some of the passengers subjected to additional checks for possible contact with explosives. […]
Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas says that the country is choosing infantry fighting vehicles from more than two options. […]
The NATO air policing mission in the Baltic states was cut down from September because more than half of the fighter-jets assigned to the mission had been standing idle for the past six months, says the head of the Alliance’s Military Committee General Petr Pavel. […]
Lithuania’s second-largest city Kaunas will Friday pay tribute to the memory of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who issued visas to rescue thousands of Jews during World War Two. […]
Lithuania is choosing infantry fighting vehicles from two offers, says Chief of Defence Lieutenant General Jonas Vytautas Žukas. […]
Lithuania’s Welfare and Labour Minister Algimanta Pabedinskienė expects that the country’s municipalities will voluntarily share the refugees after their integration period at the Refugees Reception Centre. […]
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, currently in Lithuania, says Ukraine‘s decentralization reform and the agreement to stop truce violations as of September is a new opportunity to ensure peace in Ukraine. […]
Lithuania hopes to reach a national defence spending level of 2 percent GDP by 2018, two years earlier than was originally estimated, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Thursday. […]
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday opened the NATO Force Integration Units (NFIU) in Vilnius. This and five other NFIUs in Central and Eastern European countries have been set up in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine. […]
The European Union has extended the existing sanctions for Ukrainian and Russian citizens supporting pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine for six more months, Lithuanian diplomats said on Wednesday. […]
Vilnius Mayor Remigijus Šimašius says English signs will be installed on buses crossing central Vilnius and servicing Vilnius International Airport, despite objections from the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language. […]
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will on Thursday officially announce the opening of the NATO Force Integration Units (NFIU) in Lithuania and five other Central and Eastern European countries that want greater NATO presence in the region to deter Russia. […]
The Government of Lithuania is currently not considering accepting more refugees than 325 it has committed to, although it does not discount such a possibility, the country’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says. […]
The State Commission of the Lithuanian Language has not backed a public transport initiative to install Lithuanian-English direction signs on buses crossing central Vilnius and servicing the airport. […]
Students of some of Polish-language schools in Lithuania skipped classes on Wednesday in protest of education provisions and went to a church service instead. […]
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