"Rail Baltica"
Economy

Official launch of Rail Baltica segment between Kaunas and Polish border

A segment of Rail Baltica between Kaunas and the Polish border is officially opening on Friday. The Lithuanian prime minister says it is now up to Poland to upgrade its network so that transportation of cargo and passengers on the railway can begin. […]

European Union

Polish-Lithuanian gas interconnection funding deal to be signed in Brussels

Lithuania, Poland and the European Commission are signing a deal on Thursday over the financing of the GIPL gas pipeline between Lithuania and Poland. The interconnection is said to be an important project in furthering the EU’s energy union and the Baltic aspiration towards energy independence from Russia. […]

Bronislaw Komorowski
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian PM discusses strategic cooperation with Poland’s Komorowski

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has met with former Polish president Bronislaw Komorowski to discuss the strategically important projects: power bridge LitPol Link, gas connection GIPL, and Poland‘s involvement in Rail Baltica. The prime minister congratulated the president on the award of Rokiškis honorary citizenship, thanking the president for his merits to Lithuania, the prime minister’s press service said. […]

Bronislaw Komorowski
Foreign affairs

Poland’s outgoing president made honorary citizen of Lithuanian town

On 13 October in Rokiškis (Lithuania), Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius congratulated Poland‘s outgoing President Bronislaw Komorowski on becoming an honorary citizen of Rokiškis town and highlighted the importance of friendly ties between Lithuania and Poland, Lithuania’s MFA said. […]

Pora
Politics

Lithuanian parliament rejects civil partnership law

The Lithuanian parliament, Seimas, rejected the bill that would have introduced the institution of partnership of opposite sex couples. The Ministry of Justice, which drafted the law, says the proposed legislation merely acknowledges the existing forms of cohabitation, while the opponents insist that civil partnership is an encroachment on the institution of marriage and is just one step away from legalizing same-sex partnership. […]

Linas Linkevičius

EU should lift Belarus sanctions by the end of October, Lithuanian minister says

The European Union should make the decision to lift sanctions on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko by the end of the month, according to Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, LRT.lt reports. […]