Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is planning a visit to Israel this week, says that the Lithuanian-Israeli relations have never been as good as they are now. She adds that the four-day visit might have international significance due to current tensions in Israeli-Palestinian relations. […]
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. […]
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. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has appointed Vaidotas Mažeika to the post of deputy director of the State Security Department. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has accepted letters of credence from Hungarian Ambassador Zoltan Jancsi. […]
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. […]
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. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė attended the inauguration of the Nasdaq technology and business support competence centre as well as a new office of the stock exchange Nasdaq Vilnius and the Lithuanian Central Securities Depository in Vilnius, the presidential press service said. […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius took part in the European Union‘s (EU) Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels on 12 October, which focused on the situation in Syria and migration, Lithuania’s MFA said. […]
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. […]
MEP Viktor Uspaskich, the founder and de facto leader of Lithuania’s Labour Party, has criticized fellow party member Loreta Graužinienė, the speaker of the Lithuanian parliament, for her “passivity”, warning that “life does not end in the Seimas speaker chair” in reference to Graužinienė’s future political prospects. […]
Two months remain until the completion of the biggest joint Swedish and Lithuanian project NordBalt. In December the electricity produced in Scandinavia will be transmitted directly to Lithuania for the first time in history. King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden along with the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė evaluated the NordBalt implementation progress while visiting the construction site of the NordBalt high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter station in Klaipėda. […]
Representatives of Lithuania’s Polish-speaking community, backed by the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) political party, are planning a protest action this week over ethnic minority education and the planned reforms of the Labour Code, lzinios.lt reports. […]
A Lithuanian army officer was injured in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan on Sunday, DELFI reports. […]
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says he is in favour of the European Union lifting sanctions on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė together with King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden are visiting the Lithuanian seaside on Friday. The third day of the Swedish royal state visit is dedicated to the Curonian Spit, the environmental initiatives launched in Lithuania and our historical heritage, the presidential press service said. […]
On 7 October, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Mantvydas Bekešius attended events marking the 75th anniversary of Visas for Life, which were organised by the Embassy of Japan in Lithuania, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
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