Lithuania’s parliament on Tuesday rejected the conclusions of an ad hoc investigation commission on the public broadcaster LRT after 56 lawmakers voted in favor, 56 were against and three abstained. […]
Some members of the European Parliament have called on German Chancellor Angela Merkel to change her government’s policy on Nord Stream 2, a new gas pipeline from Russia to Germany under the Baltic Sea. […]
If the Seimas decides to lower the referendum threshold for two chapters of the Constitution that now have a higher level of protection, the Constitutional Court will be asked to give its opinion on the amendment, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Tuesday. […]
Lithuania will be able send more troops and civilians to international operations in the next two years. […]
The Education and Science Ministry proposes to start mandatory Lithuanian-language education in pre-school establishments for national minorities’ children at an earlier age, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Tuesday. […]
If the Seimas backs the ruling bloc’s proposal to lower the referendum threshold for Chapter 1 of the Constitution, President Dalia Grybauskaitė will veto the legislation, her advisor said on Tuesday. […]
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says there was a lack of democracy in the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats‘ primary election, adding that Ingrida Šimonytė was effectively “appointed” as the conservative party’s presidential candidate by its top leaders. […]
The chairwoman of the Seimas Committee on Social Affairs and Labor has given up the idea, at least for now, of setting up a register of sex offenders in Lithuania. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė expects that her meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday will open up the way for Lithuanian businesses to the huge market. […]
Latvia’s state energy company Latvenergo has started offering natural gas to its customers in Lithuania, in addition to supplying electricity. […]
Estonia’s SK ID Solutions has confirmed that its Mobile-ID service is back up and running in Lithuania after a technical problem was fixed. […]
Lithuanian Tatars discussed Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis‘ proposal to construct a community building on the site of a former Tatar cemetery in Vilnius as they held their first-ever congress on Saturday. […]
Liudas Mažylis, professor at Vytautas Magnus University, and Andrius Kubilius, a former prime minister and now lawmaker, top the list of European Parliament election candidates of the Homeland Union–Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) after receiving the most preference votes from the conservative party’s members last weekend. […]
A commemoration of the German Day of National Mourning was held in Vilnius on Sunday and WWI victims were honored at the German soldiers’ cemetery in Vingis Park. […]
Foreign companies get 30 percent of Lithuania’s defense budget, and 70 percent return to Lithuanian economy, according to National Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis who introduced lawmakers last week to national defense funding figures for the next year. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has called on China to create a more favorable investment environment for EU investment and facilitate conditions for foreign imports. […]
Colonel Modestas Petrauskas, commander of the Lithuanian Special Operations Forces, is set to be appointed Lithuania’s military representative to NATO and the European Union after the parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense gave the green light to his appointment. […]
Lithuania will consider sending more troops to Afghanistan and also appoint a civilian representative, says Lithuanian Minister of National Defense Raimundas Karoblis, currently on a visit to Afghanistan. […]
Former diplomat Vygaudas Ušackas, who lost in a primary presidential candidate election held by the opposition conservative Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats over the past weekend, says he lacked time to boost his reputation among party members. […]
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