The first refugees to arrive in Lithuania under the EU resettlement program will face real barriers in securing housing or jobs here, according to experts. […]
The State Security Department has showed to the Parliamentary National Security and Defence Committee the schemes by which money for propaganda comes from Moscow to Lithuania. […]
Refugees should not get bigger benefits than people who have worked in Lithuania for 30 or 40 years, President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė told LRT Radijas radio. According to the president, Lithuania has already designated considerable benefits compared to other countries. […]
Now that Europe is facing numerous crises and cannot focus its undivided attention on assisting Ukraine, it is important not to trade one issue for another, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said to LRT programme Savaitė. […]
A Lithuanian member of the European Parliament, Antanas Guoga, who has Australian citizenship, has recently discovered that Lithuanian laws do not allow foreign citizens to run in parliamentary elections. Guoga was planning to be a candidate of the Liberal Movement party in Vilkaviškis single-member constituency and challenge the incumbent Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius in 2016. […]
On Wednesday, the government of Lithuania approved minimum wage raise up to 350 euro per month. The new rate will apply from January 1, 2016. […]
Defence Minister Juozas Olekas has signed an agreement in London, establishing the Joint Expeditionary Force. Defence Policy Director at the Ministry of National Defence Vaidotas Urbelis says that the seven states that signed the agreement share a similar view on security and will be able to decide how to react to conflicts on their own. […]
There is no need to announce a higher level of terrorism threat in Lithuania, because the State Security Department (VSD) is working to monitor the situation in the country and cooperating with foreign partners, the head of the State Security Department, Darius Jauniškis, told the LRT programme Savaitė. […]
During World War Two, Nazi Germany‘s submarines would regularly attack Allied forces. In response, the Allies formed special brigades to monitor German submarines. One of these brigades included a serviceman named Zenonas Lukošius, a Lithuanian expatriate. He has become a hero of WWII. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has named ways to prevent corruption on the LRT radio show “60 minučių”. […]
The Lithuanian State Security Department says that there are no Lithuanian citizens fighting on the side of the Islamic State in Syria. However, several dozen Polish and Latvian Islamic State supporters have gone to Syria. […]
Bullying remains a pandemic problem in Lithuanian schools and can sometimes lead to tragic consequence, including suicide. The Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson‘s Office has conducted a survey among school students, a fifth of whom said they were bullied for one reason or another. […]
After Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, Lithuania has taken additional measures at border crossing points, including more thorough inspections of people and vehicles. […]
Last week, the Lithuanian government published a report on efforts to fight the black market. The government says inspectors have uncovered transactions worth over half a billion euro. Unfortunately, there are still areas relatively immune to anti-black-market efforts, the chief among them being illegal letting of apartments. […]
The Lithuanian prime minister is summoning the minister of the interior and the State Security Department head for an urgent meeting on security following tragic terrorist attacks in Paris. […]
Lithuanians are increasingly satisfied with their wages, although over the past several years average pay only rose by a little more than 50 euro is now about 550. Still, levels of satisfaction with wages in Lithuania are almost the same as in Estonia with the average monthly salary of 900 euro. […]
Belarus has said the country’s experts will respond to all questions that Lithuania has raised about safety issues of its planned Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant in December. […]
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