A Vilnius unit of the conservative Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) has nominated diplomat Žygimantas Pavilionis to run for a parliament seat in the upcoming general elections next year in the Naujamiestis constituency of Vilnius. […]
Representatives of Poland, Lithuania and the European Commission signed a funding agreement for the Gas Interconnection Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) on Thursday, securing the EU’s funding for the project that will enable free gas flow between Poland and the Baltic states. […]
The Lithuanian Parliament has begun considering legislative amendments that would peg retirement to average life expectancy. It has been proposed that two years after the average projected life expectancy of people aged 65 years grows by six months, the retirement age would be raised by six months as well. […]
On 14 October, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius attended the première of the film Persona Non Grata about a Japanese ambassador in Lithuania who issued visas to Jews during World War Two, saving thousands of people from death. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is attending a European Council meeting to discuss the refugee crisis, says that economic migrants should be separated from genuine war-fleeing refugees and the latter are not supposed to be picky which safe country to go to. […]
After submission on Thursday, the Lithuanian Parliament approved amendments to the Labour Code and accompanying legislation regulating the new social model. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that gas pipeline with Poland will provide an opportunity for Lithuania not only to import but also to export natural gas, depending on the situation in the market. […]
An agreement on financial assistance for the Gas Interconnection Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) project was signed at the European Commission‘s building Berlaymont on Thursday. […]
Lithuania’s Kauno Tiltai AB, the largest transportation infrastructure company in the Baltics, and Mitnija UAB, the largest construction company in Lithuania, have finished laying, remodelling and upgrading the first European gauge railway from Šeštokai town to Marijampolė town (Lithuania), Mitnija said in a press release. […]
A group of 37 members of the Lithuanian Parliament has proposed to launch a parliamentary inquiry into the activities of the PR company Ministerium which was formerly owned by the prime minister’s son-in-law. […]
As natural gas consumption has dropped drastically in the energy sector, the minimum quantity of natural gas required for the operation of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Terminal will twice surpass the projected demand by energy producers. The designated supplier, company Litgas, forecasts that due to such changes in the market the average gas purchase price for energy producers may rise by approximately 50 percent. This shows that the existing designated supply model is no longer sustainable. […]
According to representatives of the European Commission (EC), synchronisation of the Baltic states’ power network with transmission systems of the West could cost approximately EUR 800 million, including the LitPol Link electricity connection with Poland. […]
At the conference Verslas 2016 (Business 2016), Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius introduced the Government’s economic policy priorities for the upcoming year. The priorities include: continuation of the systematic reform of the energy sector, strengthening of the domestic market, mitigation of tax burden on the lowest earners, minimum wage growth and remuneration increase in certain sectors. […]
A Lithuanian officer who was injured in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan is expected to be transported to The Landstuhl Regional Medical Centre in Ramstein, Germany, on Wednesday. The Joint Staff of the Lithuanian Armed Forces learned about this from Bahram military hospital were the officer is being treated. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of Environment will submit the requirements via the European Commission with a view to ensuring that no genetically modified (GM) crops are grown in Lithuania. This ban will be in force throughout the territory of the country, the ministry reports. […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius believes that further criminal investigation into the tragic crash of Malaysian Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) will name concrete perpetrators of the crime and they will be brought to justice. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania, parliament, on Tuesday returned the amendments to the Law on the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Terminal for improvement. […]
MP Rasa Juknevičienė from the Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) parliamentary group of the Lithuanian parliament has been elected as the main rapporteur of the Political Committee of NATO Parliamentary Assembly, which is taking place in Stavanger, Norway. […]
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