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Lithuanian PM says higher pensions won’t derail welfare system
Lithuanian government’s plans to increase pensions early in 2016 would not dig Sodra, the state social insurance fund, into a deeper financial hole, the prime minister said. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian foreign minister going to Ukraine
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius is on Thursday going to Ukraine for a two-day visit and is scheduled to meet with the country’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin and other officials. […]
Society
Lithuanian MP wants ban on wearing burqas in public, activists disagree
As Lithuania prepares to receive several hundred refuges, Artūras Paulauskas, chairman of the Lithuanian Seimas National Security and Defense Committee, suggests introducing a ban for wearing Muslim burqas in public, saying that they might pose threat to national security. […]
Politics
Politics
Lithuanian PM wants to raise pensions in early 2016
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius wants pensions in Lithuania to be raised in early 2016, instead of the middle of the year. […]
Economy
Lithuanian government backs car registration ban for fine dodgers
The Government of Lithuania on Wednesday backed the Ministry of the Interior’s proposal to introduce a ban to issue or replace driver’s licenses to drivers who do not pay fines for traffic rules violations. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian parliament speaker meets Saakashvili in Odessa
Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė has met with Mikheil Saakashvili, the former Georgian president and now the government of the Ukrainian Odessa region, and said local people hope for a breakthrough that would open up a new stage in the country’s history. […]
Economy
Lithuanian president says market has to regulate milk prices
Despite a difficult situation in Lithuania’s milk sector, President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that prices have to be regulated under market conditions rather than artificially. […]
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Foreign affairs
Lithuania should expand circle of friends in Russia, says Ambassador Ušackas
The European Union‘s Ambassador in Moscow Vygaudas Ušackas says that Lithuania should work to expand its circle of friends in Russia, possibly through more active involvement cooperation among universities. […]
Energy
Lithuanian MP says there are no ‘loyalty’ problems among Ignalina NPP staff
Artūras Paulauskas, the chairman of the Lithuanian parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee, said after visiting Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant on Tuesday he had not seen problems in connection with loyalty of the staff of the strategic object. […]
Society
Lithuanian government earmarks EUR 50,000 for youth exchange with Ukraine
Lithuanian and Ukrainian governments intend to sign an agreement on youth exchange, with the Lithuanian Ministry of Social Security and Labour planning to earmark 50,000 euros for the projects next year. […]
Defence
Lithuanian Defence Ministry appoints new inspector general
Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas has appointed Brigadier General Algis Vaičeliūnas as the ministry’s inspector general, the ministry said on Tuesday. […]
Defence
Radioactive ice detectors missing at Lithuanian Air Base
Six ice detectors used in aircraft are missing at the Lithuanian Air Force‘s Air Base in the northern city of Šiauliai. They are a source of radiation, the Ministry of National Defence said on Tuesday. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania’s former EU ambassador to be appointed deputy foreign minister
Former Lithuanian Ambassador to the EU Raimundas Karoblis will be appointed a deputy minister of foreign affairs, Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said on Tuesday. […]
Energy
Lithuanian MPs visiting Ignalina nuclear power plant
Members of the Lithuanian Seimas’ National Security and Defence Committee are on Tuesday visiting Ignalina nuclear power plant and the neighboring municipality of Visaginas. […]
Politics
Lithuanian president calls on setting up development fund for Polish-dominated region
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė supports an initiative to set up a special fund or launch a special program for promoting development of the country’s southeastern region to make use of the potential in the region densely populated by Lithuanian Poles. […]