Vladimir Vladimirovich Kara-Murza
European Union

Foreign Minister holding breakfast of EU colleagues with Kremlin’s critic

Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius holding a breakfast for European Union’s (EU) foreign minister with Russian opposition figure and prominent critic of the Kremlin, Vladimir Kara-Murza, in Luxembourg on Monday. […]

Emanuelis Zingeris
European Union

European MPs split over nomination of Lithuania’s Zingeris for PACE presidency

Parliamentarians from European countries have been divided by the rivalry of Lithuania’s conservative MP Emanuelis Zingeris against a Cypriot representative for presidency of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. […]

Lietuvos Geležinkeliai
Economy

Government couldn’t avert EU fine on railway co – transpmin

Lithuanian Transport Minister Rokas Masiulis says that the government, which took office in late 2016, could not have averted a fine of almost 28 million euros that the European Commission imposed on Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, or LG) for breaching the bloc’s anti-trust rules. […]

Lithuanian railway
Economy

EC imposes EUR 28 mln fine on Lietuvos Geležinkeliai over dismantled rails

The European Commission on Monday imposed a 27.87-million-euro fine for the state-run company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) for restricting competition by dismantling a railway stretch between Mazeikiai and the Latvian town of Renge in 2008. […]