Dainoras Bradauskas has won the Monday’s tender to head the State Tax Inspectorate under the Ministry of Finance (VMI). A total of 5 candidates participated in the competition, even though 11 had registered to take part. […]
This year Lithuania’s basketball legend Arvydas Sabonis will be sharing his shirt number 11 with NATO – on March 29 Lithuania marks the 11th anniversary as a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, the Ministry of Defence quotes Minister Juozas Olekas on its website. […]
A grave thought to be a couple of thousand years old has been found in Lithuania’s western district of Klaipėda during the building of a gas main. It contains a unique urn. […]
Lithuania is switching to daylight saving time this week by advancing clocks by one hour at 3 a.m. on Sunday. Also known as the summer time, the daylight saving time will be in effect for seven months until the end of October. […]
Lithuanian National Defence Minister Juozas Olekas says that Russia would make a great mistake if it decided to cross the borders of any of the NATO members. […]
Russia’s gas concern Gazprom has what to be afraid of in Lithuania and the European Union (EU), Lithuania’s Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis has said. […]
On Friday, 27 March, Finance Minister of France Michel Sapin will visit the Bank of Lithuania. The Chairman of the Board of the Bank of Lithuania, Vitas Vasiliauskas, during his meeting with Sapin will discuss progress in quantitative promotion, begun this month by the European Central Bank (ECB), as well as accenting need for structural reforms, the national bank said. […]
Vladimiras Simonko, the leader of the Lithuanian Gay League, on Tuesday welcomed the proposed law to allow same-sex partnerships, saying the step would trigger discussions about the rights of homosexual persons living together. […]
Nine Lithuanian MPs representing the Social Democratic and Liberal party groups have registered a bill to allow same-sex partnership. […]
On 23-24 March in Copenhagen, political directors of the Nordic-Baltic Eight (NB8) discussed regional issues, challenges to Ukraine‘s security and territorial integrity, preparations for the upcoming Eastern Partnership Summit in Riga, prospects for relations with Russia, ways to increase resilience to propaganda of the societies, as well as threats of terrorism and the spread of radical Islamic ideology, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
Lithuania‘s ruling parties intend to shortly again submit a Constitutional amendment to the parliament to pave way for removed president Rolandas Paksas to run for parliament and president. […]
On March 21, during a solemn ceremony at the National Art Palace Ukraine in Kyiv, President Dalia Grybauskaitė was presented with Ukraine’s Person of the Year 2014 award. The title was bestowed on the president of Lithuania for her solid support to Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and European aspirations, the presidential press service said. […]
According to new data, more than 25,000 jobs are created each year by companies newly registered in Lithuania. The data, published by Creditreform Lietuva, also shows that after two years of operations this figure increases by another 60 percent, with some companies registering a tenfold growth in employee numbers, Invest Lithuania reports. […]
EU leaders discussed the European Commission’s proposal for building an energy union, which aims to strengthen EU policies in five key areas – ensure transparent and secure energy supplies, complete the EU internal energy market, increase energy efficiency, promote innovations and pursue efforts for more renewable energies. […]
On Friday, a partial solar eclipse was visible in Lithuania. […]
European Union leaders have decided to maintain economic sanctions on Russia until the end of the year. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has left for Brussels to attend a European Council meeting on 19-20 March, the presidential press service reports. […]
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania issued a statement regarding the “Treaty on Alliance and Integration” between the Russian Federation and South Ossetia region of Georgia, asserting that the agreement has no legal value. […]
The Lithuanian Centre for Human Rights has produced a powerful video ad that highlights racist abuse online. The video, which was posted on social networks on Monday, has had almost 300,000 views on YouTube in one day. […]
Lithuania was represented for the seventh time in Luxembourg‘s Migration, Culture and Citizenship Festival on 13-15 March. Thanks to the initiative of Lithuanian community in Luxembourg, this year Lithuania had three of almost 400 stands for information, cuisine, exhibitions, music and dance from all over the world. […]
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