Russia‘s recent involvement in the war in Syria will only worsen the plight of refugees who are making their way to Europe in thousands, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
On Tuesday, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius met with Toyoei Shigeeda, the new ambassador of Japan in Lithuania, to discuss energy and transport, economic, cultural and scientific relations between Lithuania and Japan, the PM’s press service said. […]
Kaunas Municipality is finishing an application to have parts of the city included into the Tentative List of UNESCO World Heritage, the municipality announced on Tuesday. […]
Lithuania’s Ministry of Justice submitted a bill on Tuesday that, if passed, would allow creating a system for online voting in elections and referenda. […]
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Queen Silvia will visit Vilnius University (VU) on 7-8 October. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is leaving for a visit to Switzerland on Tuesday, says that the Swiss army, which is based on military conscription, is a “nice example” for Lithuania. […]
Spain, Italy and Portugal are hosting NATO military exercise Trident Juncture 2015, which kicked off on Saturday. Some 200 soldiers from Lithuania and almost 50 units of military equipment will join NATO’s biggest wargames since 2002, the Ministry of National Defence reports. […]
After the Finance Ministry has submitted proposal for the 2016 state budget, which envisages a slightly bigger fiscal deficit than this year, the National Audit Office says this raises the risk for long-term sustainability of government finance. President Dalia Grybauskaitė warns that Lithuania might exceed the limit provided by the EU’s fiscal compact. […]
Every fourth Lithuanian thinks that same-sex marriage should be legalized throughout the European Union, according to a Eurobarometer survey. This is well below the EU average, BNS reports. […]
Six synagogues in Lithuania have been included into the list of monuments protected by the state, BNS reports. […]
During the session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly on 2 October, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with heads and representatives of major world and American Jewish organisations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. […]
On 3 October President Dalia Grybauskaitė extended congratulations to Federal President Joachim Gauck on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of German reunification celebrated on Unity Day, the presidential press service said. […]
As Lithuania is approaching its goal of separating from the electricity network extending across the former Soviet Union and fully integrating itself into the energy system of Western Europe, Moscow might claim multi-billion-euro damages that Vilnius could be liable to pay based on a treaty signed 14 years ago. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė is going on an official visit to Switzerland on Tuesday, 6 October, at the invitation of Swiss President Simonetta Sommaruga. […]
Raimundas Lopata, political scientist and advisor to Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius, has slammed the foreign policy of President Dalia Grybauskaitė, saying in an interview published on Friday that her recent speech at the United Nations was “sterile”. […]
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