The UN Security Council is holding a closed-door meeting on Crimea, initiated by Lithuania, later on Thursday. Russia, which annexed the Ukrainian region a year ago, is reportedly boycotting the meeting. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that much-discussed draft amendments to the country’s Labour Code will be good both for employees and employers and will make the labour market much more flexible. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday voted in favour of restoring conscription in the country. The first stage of military draft is scheduled for August-September, National Defence Minister Juozas Olekas said. […]
Even though the Lithuanian central bank last week cut its GDP growth forecast for this year, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that the government is not planning to revise the national budget, at least for now, adding that EU support should help cushion the impact of slower growth. […]
Security was stepped at Vilnius and Naujoji Vilnia Train Stations in Lithuania on Thursday in response to information that Russian army conscripts might be crossing to the Russian region of Kaliningrad via Lithuania, according to the lrytas.lt news website. […]
A bill on the restoration of military conscription will be brought before the Seimas of Lithuania, parliament, on Thursday. Both the ruling and the opposition political groups have pledged their support. […]
The government said on Wednesday that if Lithuania won its arbitration dispute with Gazprom at the Stockholm arbitration court, then around 1.4 billion euros to be paid as compensation by the Russian gas giant would go to consumers. […]
The government on Wednesday okayed the amendments on the establishment of positions of defence adviser at Lithuanian embassies abroad. […]
Travellers and prominent public figures intend to organize a three-year trip around the globe as a way to celebrate 100 years since Lithuania restored independence in 1918. […]
Lithuanian Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says she has heard requests during her visit in Ukraine to provide assistance in weapons. […]
Italy‘s Typhoon fighter-jets serving in the NATO air policing mission of the Baltic states were scrambled from Šiauliai air base in late hours of Tuesday to escort 11 Russian war planes flying above the Baltic Sea from mainland Russia to its Kaliningrad region. […]
Loreta Graužinienė intends to continue as Lithuania’s parliamentary speaker even after resigning from leadership of the ruling Labour Party, pledging to continue in the post at least until a new leader of the party is elected. […]
The Lithuanian Office of Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson is investigating a complaint filed by a man from Šiauliai who was not allowed to enter a Chippendales show. […]
Lithuania’s government is starting to discuss ways to spend approximately 1.4 billion euros, which it may receive as compensation from Gazprom if the Stockholm arbitration court sides with Lithuania in its dispute with the Russian gas giant. […]
More than 500 German soldiers will come for combined training to Lithuania this year, the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defence said on Tuesday. […]
Prosecutor Gintas Ivanauskas of the Lithuanian Prosecutor General‘s Office wants to question the country’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė in the case of her spokeswoman Daiva Ulbinaitė who is accused of having leaked classified information. […]
Food distribution, energy and pharmaceutical products, as well as telecommunications and the Internet, are the sectors where Lithuanians are most likely to have experienced problems due to a lack of competition, according to a Flash Eurobarometer survey. […]
The forthcoming EU Eastern Partnership summit in Riga should not leave an impression that the EU is stepping back from its commitments to partners under Russia’s pressure, says Jovita Neliupšienė, chief adviser to Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on foreign policy issues. […]
Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė has resigned as leader of the Labour Party, the party announced on Tuesday. […]
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