Politics
President signs controversial family bill into law
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė signed the controversial Law on the Strengthening of the Family on Friday. […]
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New Lithuanian president: revolution or successorship?
Political analyst Rimvydas Valatka says that the strongest candidate in the presidential elections will be the one who will dismiss the two terms of President Dalia Grybauskaitė. Meanwhile political scientist Tomas Janeliūnas believes the opposite […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania’s president ranks 68th on Forbes’ list of most influential women
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė ranks 68th among the world’s 100 most powerful females published by the US magazine Forbes. […]
Economy
Grybauskaitė calls on Lithuanian businesses, farmers to invest in UAE
President Dalia Grybauskaitė, on an official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), says that Lithuanian business people, high technology experts and farmers have opportunities to establish themselves in the Persian Gulf state’s market. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania opens honorary consulate in Istanbul
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Monday opened a honorary consulate in Istanbul, which became the country’s 5th honorary consulate in Turkey. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania’s president off to UAE to agree on exports certificates for meat, eggs
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė has left for an official visit to the United Arab Emirates, saying that the main aim of the visit will be to finalize exports certificates for meat and eggs. […]
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Lithuanians seek a very specific president after Grybauskaitė
Lithuanians want an oligarch, they would be prepared to vote for Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis in the presidential elections if he runs. Meanwhile other business representatives currently do not have any great chances in the […]
Economy
Luxembourg wants to cooperate with Lithuania in telecoms, finance, IT
Luxembourg wants to cooperate with Lithuania in the areas of telecommunications, information and finance technologies, satellites and logistics, Grand Duke Henri said in Vilnius on Thursday. […]
Politics
Over 100 NGOs, academicians call on president to veto family law
Eighty non-governmental organizations and almost 30 academicians have asked Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė to veto the recently-passed Law on the Strengthening of the Family. […]
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Lithuania can’t lower turnout for dual citizenship referendum
Lithuania cannot lower the minimum turnout threshold for a referendum on dual citizenship, but it can rally politicians and the public to ensure that such a plebiscite takes place, the chief advisor to President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Tuesday. […]
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Potential presidential candidates begin saying what voters want to hear
Potential candidates in the presidential election have begun talking about social segregation and strengthening the regions and this helps them draw attention, notes political scientist Tomas Janeliūnas and economist Romas Lazutka. “For now this is […]
Politics
Kaunas mayor still 2nd among Lithuania’s most popular politicians
Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis continues ranking second, after Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė, on the list of the country’s most popular politicians in October, shows a poll published in Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday. […]
Politics
Lithuanian president popularity, Farmers just ahead of Conservatives
The popularity of Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė saw a slight decline in September from the earlier month, while the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union and the opposition conservatives enjoy roughly the same support among political parties, shows a survey conducted by RAIT pollster for BNS Lithuania. […]
Politics
Seimas passes amendments for in-absentia trial of ex-bankers
Lithuania’s parliament on 19 October passed amendments initiated by President Dalia Grybauskaitė that en able the country’s law-enforcement to put financial offenders who have fled the country on trial. […]
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Referendum cleared as only way to dual citizenship – Grybauskaitė
The Lithuanian Constitutional Court has removed doubts that referendum is the only way of allowing dual citizenship, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said in comment of the Friday’s ruling. […]
European Union
EU-Britain talks should move from words to deeds – Grybauskaitė in Brussels
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says both parties in the Brexit talks between the European Union (EU) and Great Britain should move from loud rhetoric to actual deeds. […]
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President: we already have to discuss a military Schengen
The Zapad exercise displayed that we have to already begin discussing simplified movement of military equipment among EU countries, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė told LRT Radio. According to her the so called military Schengen is […]
European Union
President off to EU summit to discuss Brexit, EU reforms
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė is Thursday leaving for the European Union’s (EU) summit, which will discuss talks on the United Kingdom’s exit from the organization and the bloc’s plans for reforms. […]
History
Landsbergis has always been Lithuania’s first head-of-state – president
Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania’s first post-independence leader, has always been the first head-of-state and will always have the status, which cannot be changed by any laws or machinations, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
Economy
Lithuanian railway co to appeal against size of EU fine – president
Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LG) does not intend to deny the competition violation established by the European Commission (EC), however, intends to go to court over the size of the fine, says the country’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]