Saulius Skvernelis
Foreign affairs

Lithuanian PM meeting Chinese, Croatian counterparts in Hungary

Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is attending a meeting of heads of governments of 16 Central and Eastern European nations with China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang in Hungary on Monday. […]

Astravyets NPP construction
Foreign affairs

Minsk says it’s open to cooperation with EU on N-plant project

Belarus says that it is open to cooperation with the European Union on its nuclear power plant, a project that Lithuania says is unsafe. […]

Pope Francis
Foreign affairs

Vilnius archbishop: ‘Pope would strengthen us in our difficulties’

Vilnius Archbishop Gintaras Grušas says that Pope Francis, who plans to visit Lithuania next year, would give strength to people and help them find a way out of difficult situations. […]

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. […]

Pope Francis
Foreign affairs

Pope Francis to visit Lithuania next year

Pope Francis plans to visit Lithuania in the autumn of 2018, the president’s office confirmed to BNS on Wednesday. […]