Lithuania’s controversial law aimed at protecting minors from public information deemed harmful to their development has once again appeared under the radar of European Union (EU) institutions. The law, which says that minors should not be exposed to information denigrating “family values”, is said to discriminate against LGBT people. […]
On 20 February, the Confederation of Lithuanian Industrialists (LPK) together with the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (USPP) signed an agreement, establishing a permanent representation of Ukrainian business in Brussels. […]
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. […]
Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Juozas Olekas says that defence ministers of the European Union countries perceive the threat of a hybrid armed conflict rising from the East and the need for the EU to be ready to repel this threat. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who took part in an informal meeting of the European Council on Thursday, says that all member-states of the eurozone must carry out a responsible fiscal and economic policy and Greece is no exception. […]
President Dalia Grybauskaitė has left for Brussels to attend an informal meeting of the European Council, the presidential press service said. […]
On Wednesday, the European Parliament decided to reopen the investigation into alleged CIA prisons in different European countries. MEPs have also urged the member-states to investigate the related suspicions and prosecute those responsible. […]
The European Union‘s (EU) foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini says that the French and German leaders attending the Minsk talks on peace in Ukraine on Wednesday will speak on the EU’s behalf, emphasizing the historic responsibility of the talks. […]
Lithuania’s Deputy Foreign Minister Rolandas Kriščiūnas, who attended General Affairs Council in Brussels on Tuesday, has stressed the necessity to strengthen the security of the European Union‘s external borders. […]
The European Union on Monday postponed the implementation of new sanctions against representatives of the Russian government and separatists in response to Ukraine‘s request, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius said. […]
Lithuania’s Minister of Energy Rokas Masiulis paid a visit to Riga to take part in a conference on the creation of the European Energy Union. Latvia is currently presiding over the Council of the European Union. The Lithuanian energy minister says such union might contribute to dealing with issues which are given insufficient attention on the current EU agenda and which lack European-level support. […]
The European Union on Thursday agreed to blacklist three Russian executive government officials working in the area of defence as well as two members of the State Duma and 14 Russia-supported separatists, the Lithuanian ambassador said. […]
The European Commission on Wednesday launched work on the Energy Union, a fundamental step towards the completion of single energy market and reforming how Europe produces, transports and consumes energy, according to a press release. […]
The European Commission (EC) stated on Wednesday it is continuing the investigation into suspected competition violations by the Russian gas company Gazprom, thus denying media reports about the probe having been suspended. […]
The group Friends of European Ukraine, established in the European Parliament by Lithuanian MEP Petras Auštrevičius, has urged the European Union to immediately declare the separatist groups that call themselves the people’s republics of Donetsk and Luhansk as terrorist organisations. […]
On 3 February, Lithuania became the 19th member of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM). Lithuania has ratified the ESM Treaty and now acquires the full rights and obligations of ESM membership. […]
The European Union will set up a special communications team to counter Russia‘s propaganda campaign, which will also offer objective information about processes and events, it was decided during Thursday’s meeting of EU foreign ministers, according to Latvian Foreign Ministry Parliamentary Secretary Zanda Kalnina-Lukasevica. […]
Having convened for an extraordinary session on 29 January, the European Union Foreign Affairs Council decided to extend current sanctions against Moscow. New restrictions against Russia will be imposed only if the situation in eastern Ukraine does not improve or deteriorates. Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius has called the decision an optimal one. […]
The new Greek government has agreed to impose more EU sanctions on Russia, while defending its right to shape European foreign policy, EUobserver reports. […]
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