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European Union

Astravyets N-plant of concern to all of Europe – Juncker

All of Europe is concerned about the Belarusian nuclear power plant project in Astravyets, which constantly comes under severe criticism from Lithuania due to its safety standards, says the European Commission’s President Jean-Claude Juncker, adding that Brussels would keep a close eye on the situation. […]

Andrius Kubilius
Foreign affairs

Lithuania’s Kubilius urges to keep hope about Marshall Plan for Ukraine

Lithuanian MP Andrius Kubilius on Friday suggested that hopes regarding the Marshall Plan for Ukraine should not be buried regardless of Brussels’ cautious stance on the development of the new financial mechanism and the statement by Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė that Kiev should make more efficient use of the current aid. […]

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Foreign affairs

Seimas proposes 44 names for ‘Magnitsky list’

The Lithuanian parliament adopted on Thursday a resolution suggesting 44 names for inclusion in the so-called Sergei Magnitsky list of people to be barred from entering the country. […]

Antanas Guoga
European Union

MEP Antanas Guoga backs up Euroleague against FIBA unilateral decisions

Lithuanian MEP Antanas Guoga condemns the false accuses towards Euroleage calling it a basketball Cold War and sees the flaws in the new FIBA system. The concern regarding the conflicting scheduling of Euroleage clubs´ sessions and FIBA´s qualification tournaments for the basketball World Cup and the Olympics´20 was raised last week in the European Parliament, MEP Antanas Guoga press office informed. […]

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Foreign affairs

Lithuania will honour the centenaries of Finnish, Estonian, Polish and Latvian independence

At the initiative of Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis the cabinet decided to raise the Lithuanian state flag in honour of the centenaries of Estonian, Latvian, Polish and Finnish independences. It was also recommended to raise the flag of the centenarian country on the day of the jubilee next to the Lithuanian state flag at the main state institutions – the Seimas, Presidential Palace and cabinet building. […]