Politics
Lithuania must be at forefront of EU integration – president (Updated)
Lithuania must be at the forefront of EU integration, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday. […]
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Politics
Lithuanian parties have unique opportunity to rise to new life – president
Lithuanian political parties have a unique opportunity to rise to a new life after recent political corruption scandals and they need volunteers, just like the Armed Forces do, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday. […]
Politics
Stirring of political corruption waters reveals ‘unseen Lithuania’ – president
A high-profile corruption case has revealed an “unseen Lithuania” where efforts are continuing to sell the state and take control of it, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in her annual State of the Nation Address to the Seimas on Tuesday. […]
Politics
President to give her State of Nation Address
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will on Tuesday deliver her annual State of the Nation Address to the Seimas. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian defense minister leaves for US
Lithuanian Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis is on Tuesday starting a visit to the United States aimed at discussing the security situation in Northern Europe. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania denies entry to 3 Ghanaian football fans without Schengen visas
Three Ghanaian nationals travelling by train from mainland Russia to the Baltic Sea exclave of Kaliningrad for FIFA World Cup matches have been denied entry to Lithuania, the border guard chief said on Monday. […]
Politics
Ex-minister takes intelligence body to court over MG Baltic claim
Raimondas Šukys, a minister in several former Lithuanian governments, has taken the State Security Department, or VSD, to court over the intelligence agency’s claim that people from MG Baltic, one of the country’s largest business groups, exerted influence on him. […]
Defence
Economy
PM says he’s against raising basic salary amount in public sector
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Monday that he is against raising the basic amount used for calculating salaries for public servants, statutory officers and politicians. […]
Economy
Vilnius railway, bus stations to become modern transport hub
Vilnius railway and bus stations will become a modern multifunctional transport hub in the future. Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) and Vilnius authorities on Monday presented plans for the modernization of this territory and its expansion. […]
Economy
EUR 95 mln to be allocated for teachers’ wages after changes in Lithuania – committee
95 million euros will be additionally allocated for teachers’ wages after changes to the system of payment, Eugenijus Jovaiša, chairman of the parliamentary Committee on Education and Science, says. […]
Economy
Politics
Philosopher Juozaitis mulls running for Lithuanian president
Arvydas Juozaitis, a Lithuanian philosopher and one of the initiators of the Lithuanian reform movement Sąjūdis, is mulling running for president. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian Seimas speaker to visit US in late June
Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis will pay a visit to the United States in late June. […]
Defence
Foreign affairs
Nemtsov honored in Vilnius as local Russians celebrate culture day
A plaque naming a square outside the Russian Embassy in Vilnius after democrat and the Kremlin’s critic Boris Nemtsov, murdered several years ago, was unveiled on Saturday in Vilnius’ area of Žvėrynas. […]
Defence
DV, Media Day of exercises Thunder Storm 2018, Saber Strike 2018 to be held in Lithuania
The DV and Media Day of exercises Thunder Storm 2018 and Saber Strike 2018 will take place at the Lithuanian Armed Forces General Silvestras Žukauskas Training Area in Švenčionys District, eastern Lithuania, on Monday. […]
Society
Drought officially declared in five Lithuanian municipalities
Drought has officially been declared in five Lithuanian municipalities. […]
Politics
Lithuanian prosecutors drop probe into MP’s activity, fail to identify criminal activity
Lithuanian prosecutors said on Friday they had dropped an investigation into the actions of lawmaker Artūras Skardžius after almost a year. […]
Politics
LVŽS leader calls Lithuanian president’s statement “nonsense”
Ramūnas Karbauskis, leader of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS), on Friday called President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s statement that his presence in the Seimas might run counter to the Constitution “nonsense”. […]