From 6:00 in the morning on Thursday until 6:00 in the morning on Friday, Lithuanian police will enforce speeding laws to the letter – violations of even 1 km/h can expect tickets. […]
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel has assured Lithuania’s President that Germany will contribute to the defence of the Baltic States after a meeting between the two leaders. […]
The Vilnius City Municipality has created a strategy to reduce the number of suicides in Vilnius. […]
The Vilnius County Administrative Court is prepared to deliver its verdict on the appeal of the first Iraqi family to be transferred to Lithuania as part of the EU agreement on refugee resettlement. […]
During her visit to Washington, Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė said that, in the fight against terrorism, we must find a balance between privacy, human rights and security. In an interview with CNN, she also underscored the importance of NATO in the fight against terrorism. […]
In the eyes of much of the West, Russia‘s image has changed from that of an aggressor to that of an important partner in the fight against terror, says Eastern Europe Studies Centre analyst Linas Kojala. […]
Lithuania’s Competition Council, a regulatory body tasked with ensuring a healthy market and preventing monopolistic or over-dominant competitive acquisitions, has claimed that the Seimas‘ decision to regulate milk purchasing prices strangles competition, limits the personal freedoms of farmers, and possibly violates the constitution. […]
Attacks in Brussels last week were not an assault against NATO, US Ambassador to the North Atlantic Council Douglas Lute tells LRT television. He visited Lithuania last week as part of a NATO delegation ahead of the summit in Warsaw this summer where Lithuania and other eastern Alliance members are seeking greater NATO presence in their territories. […]
It has been 12 years to the day since Lithuania joined NATO. Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas spoke today about how the Lithuanian government and the Alliance itself are coming to understand the threat that the Baltic states face. […]
The Vilnius County Court has declared its decision in a case regarding corruption in the Migration Department. Two workers who admitted their guilt had their charges waived and three more individuals were charged and face fines. […]
In the wake of the attacks in Brussels, Lithuanian president Dalia Grybauskaitė expressed her disappointment in Europe’s “naive” reaction to terrorism and called for a war on terrorism. […]
On Thursday morning, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said that she would have to seek out the Constitutional Court if the government did not manage to resolve doubts about the legality of the Druskininkai manor scandal. […]
As the European Union blocks the flow of illegal immigrants from Libya to Italy and negotiates similar agreements in Turkey and Greece, some fear that migrants may try a new approach towards entering the European Union that would take them through Russia and potentially the Baltic states. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has said that if it were to become clear that Minister of the Environment Kęstutis Trečiokas had lied in comments about his relationship with Druskininkai mayor Ričardas Malinauskas, he would be asked to resign. […]
This year’s largest national Lithuanian military exercise, Lightning Strike 2016, has begun. The Lithuanian military, together with police, firefighters, ambulances, border guards, municipal personnel and riflemen, will practice responding to the first stages of hybrid and other types of military actions. […]
The idea of building a metro network in Vilnius, which some in the city have been considering for many years, could be implemented using exclusively private investment without any government funds, according to supporters of the idea. They also claim that several foreign companies have expressed interest in building a metro system for Vilnius. […]
The State Tax Inspectorate (VMI) has announced that, among the official information it has received from the HSBC Bank’s division in Switzerland about Lithuanian nationals’ bank accounts, the VMI did not find the names of the Prime Minister, nor of any members of the Seimas or of other government members. […]
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