On Monday, President Dalia Grybauskaitė congratulated the students of Vilnius University (VU) on the occasion of the New Academic Year and unveiled a renovated monument to Kristijonas Donelaitis, 18-century author credited as the father of Lithuanian-language fiction writing. […]
Minister of Education and Science Dainius Pavalkis has congratulated teachers, schoolchildren, parents and the whole academic community on the occasion of the New School Year. […]
On 29 August vessels of Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 (SNMCMG1), including the Lithuanian LNS JOTVINGIS (N42), currently led by Commander Giedrius Premeneckas (Lithuanian Navy) moored at Turku seaport in Finland. SNMCMG1 will take part in NATO-European Union’s Exercise Northern Coast 2014 in the northern part of the Baltic Sea and the territorial waters of Finland, the Ministry of National Defence reports. […]
Member of the European Parliament Valentinas Mazuronis has addressed his colleagues in the European Parliament in an open letter. The Lithuanian representative has called to apply maximum sanctions against Russia, to impose a full embargo on its military weapons without any exceptions and to provide help to Ukraine. […]
Algirdas Genevičius took office on Friday as Deputy Minister of Environment. He will oversee waste, pollution prevention, water and the European Union support administration areas. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius held a meeting of ministers on Friday to address possible challenges for national security arising from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. […]
New buses were handed over to schools at the ceremony in Independence Square in Vilnius on Thursday. Seimas Speaker Loreta Graužinienė and Minister of Education and Science Dainius Pavalkis transferred their keys to representatives of regional schools. […]
Lithuanian embassy in Pretoria, the South African Republic, could be opened in November. The related draft decree was prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. […]
The Labour Party will choose a nominee for the position of energy minister from five candidates, says Speaker of the Seimas, chairwoman of the Labour Party Loreta Graužinienė. […]
After the meeting of the Coalition political council, the leader of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) Valdemar Tomaševski announced that the party is withdrawing from the government. Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said that three parties remain in the Coalition, whereas, based on quotas, the energy ministers position will go to the Labour Party. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that problems faced by entrepreneurs affected by Russia‘s sanctions should be regarded as problems of national significance. […]
Four F-18 Hornet fighter jets of the Royal Canadian Air Force landed at the Aviation Base in Šiauliai on Tuesday. […]
Ukraine will receive a Lithuanian specialist who will help the country implement economic and integration reforms. The specialist who will provide assistance to the reform group established within the Ukrainian president’s administration will be chosen and dispatched as soon as in September, Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, who visited Kyiv last week and met with President Petro Poroshenko, told the radio Žinių Radijas. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that after the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) party leaves the ruling coalition, the position of energy minister will be taken by the Labour Party. […]
On Sunday, the Eurobus was seen off from Vilnius and started touring across Lithuania’s cities and towns. Over the course of a little over two months, it will visit all 60 municipalities, three events will be held in each one. The purpose of the campaign is to better inform people about the adoption of the euro. […]
Commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way, trees have been planted outside national parliaments in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, upon the initiative of the Baltic Assembly. […]
US Senator Bill Nelson, who met with President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Friday, said that the presence of rotational NATO forces in Lithuania was a clear message about the Alliance’s commitments. […]
According to the provisional data of Statistics Lithuania, in the second quarter of 2014, accommodation establishments accommodated 9.5 percent more guests than in the same period in 2013 and received 637.7 thousand tourists. […]
According to calculations carried out by the Netherlands-based ING Group, restrictions imposed by Russia on food imports from the European Union may cost the EU USD 6.7 billion (EUR 5.0 billion) per year, RBC Daily reports. […]
MP Kazys Starkevičius of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD), shadow agriculture minister, says that the action plan for 2014-2015, prepared by the Ministry of Economy and approved by the Government, which seeks to reduce losses of Lithuanian companies due to Russian trade sanctions, provides little hope for farmers, processors and carriers. […]
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