E. Macron and M. Le Pen
Politics

Europe’s future scenario will depend on France’s presidential choice

Future scenarios of Europe will depend upon the choice made by France, Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius said in comment of the results of the first round of voting in French presidential elections where pro-European candidate Emmanuel Macron came in narrowly ahead of far-right candidate Marine Le Pen. […]

BNS
Politics

Police opens probe into hacking of BNS system

Lithuania’s Criminal Police has opened a pre-trial investigation into hacking of the system of Vilnius bureau of BNS news agency and publishing of fake news. […]

Mindaugas Bastys
Politics

Seimas speaker to ask for security guidelines on politicians’ dangerous ties

Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, says that he will ask the State Security Department, or VSD, for some guidelines what to look at while investigating politicians’ potentially dangerous ties with Russia. […]

Mindaugas Bastys and Irena Šiaulienė
Politics

SocDems to vote against conclusion that MP Bastys acted against Lithuania’s interests

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP), the junior partner in the ruling coalition, will not support a parliamentary committee’s conclusion that Mindaugas Bastys, a member of the LSDP political group in the Seimas, acted against the interests of the Lithuanian state by maintaining close and constant contacts with representatives of Russia’s state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom. […]