Prime Minister of Lithuania Algirdas Butkevičius met with Vice President of the European Commission (EC) in charge of the Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič in Brussels on Thursday. According to the prime minister, establishing the internal energy market in Europe is a priority objective for Lithuania. […]
Petras Auštrevičius, a liberal member of the European Parliament, says that European policies need to change. The Lithuanian MEP believes, however, that Europe itself is a great structure and should not be changed. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the recent introduction of temporary border checks in Sweden is the outcome of failing to control the European Union‘s external borders. […]
President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė says most of the proposals brought forward by Prime Minister of the United Kingdom David Cameron concerning the European Union‘s (EU) reform would require negotiations, because complex procedures would have to be initiated to amend the EU’s treaties. […]
On 10 November, the European Commission (EC) adopted its annual Enlargement package – a set of documents explaining its policy on EU enlargement. In the set of annual reports, the EC has assessed where Turkey and the countries of the Western Balkans – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo – stand in preparing to meet EU membership requirements. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that, despite all measures taken by the European Union (EU) and its member-states to manage the migrant and refugee flows, the migration crisis in Europe is only worsening. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is leaving for Malta on a working visit on 11-12 November to attend an informal European Council meeting and an EU-Africa summit which aims to find more effective measures to stop the flows of illegal migration, the Lithuanian president’s office reports. […]
The latest Eurobarometer survey has shown that an overall majority of Lithuanians (92 percent) have a positive opinion about the impact of the European Union‘s (EU) regional policy projects on regional growth in the country. Lithuanians are also very optimistic about the EU’s future, their new currency euro, and also feel increasingly more European. […]
EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis has slammed discussions in Lithuania about selection criteria for refugee resettlement. According to Andriukaitis, who was Lithuania’s healthcare minister before taking the job with the EU Commission, said that selections among people in the face of the current humanitarian crisis would be immoral and go against everything Europe holds as principles. […]
The congress of the European People‘s Party in Madrid has turned into a meeting of conservative leaders to discuss the refugee crisis, a divisive issue for European conservatives. Gabrielius Landsbergis, the leader of the Lithuanian Homeland Union – Lithuanian Christian Democrats, says that his party supports Angela Merkel‘s idea of solidarity, but also questions the sustainability of proposed solutions. […]
On 25-26 October, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius visited Berlin, where he discussed bilateral relations between Lithuania and Germany, the Eastern Partnership, and assistance to Ukraine, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
Lithuanian PM Algirdas Butkevičius has said everyone should care about the challenges of climate change. The prime minister signed a declaration on climate change together with other state leaders and members of the Party of European Socialists on Wednesday in Paris. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is attending a European Council meeting to discuss the refugee crisis, says that economic migrants should be separated from genuine war-fleeing refugees and the latter are not supposed to be picky which safe country to go to. […]
An agreement on financial assistance for the Gas Interconnection Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) project was signed at the European Commission‘s building Berlaymont on Thursday. […]
Lithuania, Poland and the European Commission are signing a deal on Thursday over the financing of the GIPL gas pipeline between Lithuania and Poland. The interconnection is said to be an important project in furthering the EU’s energy union and the Baltic aspiration towards energy independence from Russia. […]
On Thursday Lithuania’s Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis is attending the European Union‘s (EU) Justice and Home Affairs Council in Luxembourg. Responding to a recent refugee crisis, ministers of the EU member states will negotiate on external border control and on the future of return policies as well as on the implementation of the decision to relocate 40,000 migrants from Italy and Greece. […]
On Thursday, MEP Gabrielius Landsbergis addressed Maroš Šefčovič, Vice President of the European Commission in charge of the Energy Union, and Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for competition, saying that the planned Nord Stream 2 project contravenes primary energy security objectives of the European Union (EU) and the Third Energy Package. […]
On 8 October, Thursday, European Commission Vice-President for the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip will come to Vilnius for an official working visit. […]
Amid growing migrant flows to Europe, people fear that refugees will bring old forgotten diseases. However, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, has rejected such fears, saying they are groundless. […]
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