Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė disagrees with President Dalia Grybauskaitė‘s proposal to establish a new institution to ensure care for social risk families in response to the tragic events in Kėdainiai district. […]
Klaipėda Seaport handled nearly 38.5 million tons of cargo last year, 1.85 million tons more than the highest level ever recorded for a year. […]
Social ills plaguing Lithuania’s regions – alcoholism, suicide, domestic violence, abuse of children and massive emigration – are as a result of “free market worship” and the government’s failure to address widening inequalities between the country’s thriving economic centres and periphery, said former adviser to the Lithuanian president Virginija Būdienė. […]
The Lithuanian government has endorsed a proposal to have airlines share information about all passengers arriving and leaving Lithuania with law enforcement institutions. The law, drafted by the Ministry of the Interior, is part of the country’s anti-terrorism effort. […]
In a letter addressed directly to ministers in Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Finland, Lithuanian Minister of Energy Rokas Masiulis exhorted these countries to carefully consider whether or not they should purchase electricity from the nuclear power plants being constructed in Belarus and in Russia’s Kaliningrad enclave. […]
The Lithuanian government has endorsed a proposal to redraw the country’s regional divisions in order to keep some of the European Union support after 2021. […]
North Korea, which claims to have tested a hydrogen bomb, is acting irresponsibly and has violated several UN resolutions on nuclear weapons, says Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. He is sceptical, however, the the UN Security Council will adopt any resolute measures during its extraordinary meeting. […]
If Latvia’s gas provider, Latvijas Gaze, will agree to draft rules and conditions for Lithuania’s gas providers, then Lithuanian gas exports may begin as early as this year. The Latvian high court’s decision to allow such a transfer removed one hurdle to the effort, but others remain. […]
The Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will not run for UN Secretary General despite being named by several international NGOs as a possible candidate to run for the post which will be decided the United Nations General Assembly this year. […]
A psychiatric examination of the suspect in the investigation of a tragic double homicide in Kėdainiai district has been ordered as forensic experts presented their findings. A father is suspected of having thrown his two kids into a well. […]
Lithuania’s Defence Ministry said that NATO jets patrolling airspace over the Baltic Countries scrambled 160 times to intercept Russian planes in 2015, up 14% on the previous year. […]
Some 150 Lithuanian tourists got stuck in an airport in the Georgian city of Kutaisi after an airline cancelled its flight on Monday due to adverse weather conditions. […]
The Lithuanian parliament should adopt a new law, allowing Lithuanian nationals to spell their names using non-Lithuanian characters in ID documents such as passports, in its spring plenary, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said. […]
Lithuania’s Social Democratic Party needs to run on a truly social democratic platform, centred around a reformed and fairer tax system and social services in this year’s elections ,according to European Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis. […]
The future of international sanctions against Russia depends primarily on whether Moscow will implement the Minsk agreements on the settlement of the military conflict in Ukraine, said Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius on Tuesday at his annual press conference. […]
Awards for the best athletes and coaches of 2015 were presented at the Opera and Ballet Theatre on January 5 with pentathlete Laura Asadauskaitė taking the Sportswoman of the Year award and cyclist Ramūnas Navardauskas taking the Sportsman of the Year award. […]
The management of Lithuania’s airfields will be entrusted to municipalities after a decision by the government‘s Strategic Committee. However, Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis said that municipalities would not be forced to take the responsibility for the airfields. […]
Strengthening of relations with the Eastern partners remains one of the most important objectives for 2016, Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius told LRT Radio. […]
Russian oil will be once again supplied to the Orlen Lietuva oil refinery in Mažeikiai as the new head of the company Wojciech Jasinski is increasing raw material imports from Russia, newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza reports. […]
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