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Lithuanian president vetoes overhaul of health facilities (Updated)

July 10, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has vetoed amendments that would have paved the way for overhauling the network of health care facilities. […]

Lithuania expects progress on air defense at NATO summit, but worries about Trump

July 10, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuanian diplomats expect a step toward strengthening air defense in the Baltic states to be taken at this week’s NATO summit, but remain wary of US President Donald Trump‘s position. […]

Lithuanians give President Grybauskaitė 8 out of 10 for her work – poll

July 10, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuanians rate President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s job performance at eight out of ten points, an opinion poll released by the Delfi.lt news website showed on Tuesday. […]

Pope interested in Lithuania’s centennial, occupation experience – Vatican expert

July 10, 2018 BNS 0

Pope Francis is interested in the independence centennial and experience of occupation of the Baltic countries, which he is scheduled to visit in September, Jack Valero, a Vatican expert, said in Vilnius on Monday. […]

Lithuania’s H1 immigration doubles, emigration down by almost a fourth

July 10, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania’s immigration rate more than doubled in the first half of this year compared with a year ago, while its emigration rate fell by almost one-fourth, according to the latest official statistics. […]

Lithuanian leaders offer condolences over deadly floods in Japan

July 10, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania’s leaders have extended condolences to Japan over deadly floods. […]

Portuguese patrol aircraft reinforces NATO’s Baltic air-policing mission

July 10, 2018 BNS 0

A Portuguese maritime patrol aircraft has reinforced NATO‘s Baltic air-policing mission, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said on Monday. […]

Dual citizenship referendum will need a lot of focus, LWC leader says

July 9, 2018 BNS 0

A referendum on dual citizen will take place in Lithuania and it will need a lot of focus, Dalia Henke, head of the Lithuanian World Community, says. […]

Abu Zubaydah, suspected CIA jail in Antaviliai

Lithuanian govt holds consultations on ECHR’s CIA prison ruling

July 9, 2018 BNS 0

The Lithuanian government’s representative at the European Court of Human Rights has started consultations with the justice and foreign ministers one whether to appeal the ECHR’s ruling on the operation of a CIA prison in Lithuania. […]

Lithuania hopes for “military mobility” investment into Rail Baltica, roads

July 9, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania hopes the European Unions‘ new budget will allocate funds for investment into the Rail Baltica railway, roads and other infrastructure so that it matches military needs. […]

Refugee resettlement stalls due to Italy, Greece, Lithuanian intermin says

July 9, 2018 BNS 0

The resettlement of refugees to Lithuania has been stalling for the last six months as the Baltic country does not receive migrant applications from Greece and Italy, Lithuanian Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas says. […]

LVŽS leader’s proposed centenary amnesty worth discussion, Lithuanian justmin says

July 9, 2018 BNS 0

An amnesty on the occasion of Lithuania’s centenary and the upcoming visit of Pope Francis, proposed by Ramūnas Karbauskis, leader of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, is worth discussing, Justice Minister Elvinas Jankevičius says. […]

Middle Eastern refugees set to come to Lithuania in fall

July 9, 2018 BNS 0

Asylum seekers from the Middle East might come to Lithuania in the fall following a break of more than six months, the head of Lithuania’s Migration Department said. […]

Lithuania’s Mission Siberia will go to Kazakhstan this year

July 9, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania’s annual Mission Siberia expedition, organized annually to tend to the burial cites of Lithuanian deportees in Russia, will go to Kazakhstan this year after Russia barred entry to the mission’s participants, the Lithuanian national radio Lietuvos Radijas said on Monday. […]