The Lithuanian government decided on Wednesday to rename the Economy Ministry as the Ministry of Economics and Innovation and to change the name of the Education and Science Ministry to the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports. […]
In an effort to comply with the European Court of Human Rights‘ judgment, the Lithuanian government proposed on Tuesday that the parliament should define cases when people serving life sentences could become eligible for release from prison. […]
Major Piotr Sadys was accredited as Poland’s new defense attaché to Lithuania at the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defense on Wednesday, replacing Colonel Miroslaw Wojcik who has resided in Vilnius since 2015. […]
Vilnius authorities plan to invest another 38.5 million euros for upgrading the public transport system and by 135 new buses. The Lithuanian capital will purchase electric and hybrid buses for the first time. […]
A proposal to hold a dual citizenship referendum in Lithuania on two days with a gap of two weeks might run counter to the country’s Constitution and Lithuania might be held up to ridicule for holding such a vote, en expert in constitutional law says. […]
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius is leaving for Washington on Thursday to pay respects to Republican Senator John McCain who died last week. […]
Lithuania’s government will consider a proposal to define cases when people serving life prison sentences might be released. This way the country would implement the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights. […]
Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis doubts that Chinese investment into the Lithuanian port of Klaipėda might affect the country’s internal politics. He says he has not seen the alleged report from the State Security Department over threats posed by Chinese investment. […]
Lithuania’s police forces in Vilnius and Kaunas are holding a major exercise on Wednesday to prepare for the upcoming visit of Pope Francis. […]
Lithuania has no plans to build a new airport as it would be too expensive, the country’s Transport Minister Rokas Masiulis says. […]
Lithuania’s government is considering introducing asset, income and interest declarations for journalists, and also barring politicians from becoming shareholders in media companies. […]
Vilnius politicians are mulling making former American President George W. Bush an honorary citizen of the Lithuanian capital. […]
The Lithuanian food production group Vičiūnų Grupė (Vičiūnai Group), owned by Visvaldas Matijošaitis, mayor of Lithuania’s second-largest city of Kaunas, as well as other shareholders, says it cannot control sellers of its products in Crimea Peninsula, occupied by Russia. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Jonas Valančiūnas, playing for the Toronto Raptors, have on Tuesday opened an adolescent day center, called Išvien (Together) established by the basketball player. […]
The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that Slovenia violated the rights of a Lithuanian sentenced for a bank robbery when it provided a Russian-language, and not a Lithuanian-language, interpreter. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday political parties are acting “not nice and irresponsibly” by trying to play defense needs off against social needs. […]
The Lithuanian capital saw the number of visitors rise by 8 percent in the first half of 2018 from a year earlier and the total number of overnight stays grow by 6.5 percent to almost a million, Go Vilnius, the city’s tourism and business development and agency, said. […]
All of Lithuania’s parliamentary political parties, except for the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania (LSDP), are likely to sign an agreement on the country’s defense policy for the next decade in September, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Tuesday. […]
Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that Lithuania will seek to promote a dialog between Turkey and the European Union. […]
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