Vilija Blinkevičiūtė
European Union

EP wants to designate 2016 European year to fight violence against women

Member of the European Parliament, Deputy Chair of the Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality Vilija Blinkevičiūtė together with her colleagues from the European Parliament have proposed to announce 2016 a European Year to fight violence against women. […]

Gediminas Kirkilas
Foreign affairs

Lithuania supports German leadership in resolving conflict in Ukraine, MP tells ambassador

Lithuanian Social Democrat Gediminas Kirkilas, deputy speaker of the Seimas, chair of the Committee on European Affairs, has met with Jutta Schmitz, German ambassador to Lithuania. […]

Andrius Kubilius, Dalia Grybauskaitė and Algirdas Butkevičius
Politics

Lithuanian PM, ex-PM to be awarded on Restoration of State Day

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė awarded the country’s former and incumbent prime ministers, foreign minister and former ambassador to Ukraine on the occasion of the Day of Restoration of State. […]

Israeli Ambassador Amir Maimon. Photo by R.Dačkus
Foreign affairs

Lithuania’s foreign minister discusses cooperation with Israeli ambassador

On 12 February, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius received Israel‘s new Ambassador to Lithuania Amir Maimon. Minister stressed that the opening of the Israeli Embassy in Vilnius would further strengthen the partnership between Lithuania and Israel and people-to-people contacts, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]