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President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė

President Grybauskaitė: Cooperation between Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine strengthens regional security

May 29, 2015 ELTA EN 0

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Marshal of the Polish Senate Bogdan Borusewicz, Chairman of Ukraine‘s Verkhovna Rada Volodymyr Groysman, and Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Loreta Graužinienė, who are participating in the sixth session of the Interparliamentary Assembly of Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine. The meeting focused on the security situation in the region, the situation in Ukraine, and enhanced interparliamentary cooperation between the three countries, said the presidential press service. […]

Opinion: Lithuania’s hypocritical response to refugee crisis

May 28, 2015 Kestutis Girnius 0

Lithuania’s foreign policy is not without some ambivalence. Vilnius aspires to be a regional leader and set an example to other small countries, Lithuania demands to be treated as a respected full-fledged member of the European Union, NATO and the international community. Its own actions, however, do not always live up to the standard. […]

Lithuanian president critical of EU’s refugee relocation proposal

May 28, 2015 BNS 0

EU member states should be given the right to decide themselves whether to accept refugees from Greece and Italy and how may of them to accept, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]

Pitrėnienė appointed Lithuania’s minister of education

May 27, 2015 BNS 0

Audronė Pitrėnienė, chairwoman of the Seimas Committee on Education, Science and Culture, has been appointed education and science minister. […]

Opinion: Kremlin’s ghost over Riga Summit (II)

May 27, 2015 Ramunas Bogdanas 0

The European Union launched its Eastern Partnership programme in 2009, soon after Russia‘s 2008 war on Georgia. It was proposed by Poland and Sweden, with enthusiastic support from Lithuania. Russia has ever since been blaming the programme for trying to undermine its interests in the countries Moscow refers to as the “near abroad”. […]

President Grybauskaitė welcomes participants of Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s conference

May 27, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

President Dalia Grybauskaitė welcomed the participants of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation’s conference in Vilnius. Grybauskaitė emphasised that only strong, dynamic and united European Union could meet people’s expectations and offset emerging challenges. […]

New nomination for Lithuania’s education minister post

May 26, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Tuesday met with Audronė Pitrėnienė, chairwoman of the Seimas Committee on Education, Science and Culture, who has been nominated for the post of education and science minister. […]

President says that Lithuania does not necessarily need flagship airline

May 26, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania does not necessarily need a flagship airline, President Dalia Grybauskaitė has said in comments about the recent collapse of Air Lituanica, an airline founded by the city of Vilnius. […]

President Grybauskaitė signs decrees on appointment of ambassadors to Georgia and Turkey

May 24, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed two decrees on appointment of new Lithuanian ambassadors to Georgia and Turkey. […]

Social Democrats still most popular party in Lithuania

May 24, 2015 BNS 0

The Social Democratic Party of Lithuania remains the most popular party in the country, and Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and President Dalia Grybauskaitė have the highest popularity ratings, a survey showed on Saturday. […]

President Grybauskaitė: Some countries would like Europe to be “a tea club”

May 22, 2015 BNS 0

Some countries would like to see the European Union as “a tea club” that does not make any decisions, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Friday. […]

EU promises to Eastern partners are sufficient, Lithuanian president says

May 22, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė, who is attending the European Union‘s (EU) Eastern Partnership summit in Riga, says that the promises made to Eastern partners are sufficient, although the West has not committed itself to accepting them into the EU in the future. […]

Lithuanian president on Britain’s demands: Free movement is core value of EU

May 22, 2015 BNS 0

Free movement of persons is a fundamental value, Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė stated in Riga on Friday, commenting on the United Kingdom‘s efforts to renegotiate the immigration rules with the European Union (EU). […]

Lithuanian president: Much achieved since Eastern Partnership’s Vilnius summit

May 22, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that a lot has been achieved since the last summit of the European Union‘s (EU) Eastern Partnership that took place in Vilnius 18 months ago, stressing that the Eastern Partnership programme is a contribution to European security. […]

Lithuanian president would not comment on Russia’s spy claim

May 21, 2015 BNS 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday refused to comment on Russia‘s claim that it had detained a Lithuanian military intelligence officer. […]

Europe remains open to Eastern partners, President Grybauskaitė says

May 21, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that at the European Union‘s (EU) Eastern Partnership Summit the EU will once again assure its commitment to cooperate with countries of Eastern Europe. However, the extent of cooperation will depend on the resolve of each country. […]

Lithuanian parliament backs president’s anti-propaganda bill

May 21, 2015 BNS 0

The Seimas of Lithuania on Thursday backed amendments, drafted by President Dalia Grybauskaitė, on countering hostile propaganda, after 79 lawmakers voted in favour, four were against and 27 abstained. […]

Lithuanian President to attend Eastern Partnership summit in Riga

May 21, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday and Friday is attending the EU Eastern Partnership summit in Riga. The summit will review the results of the Eastern Partnership programme achieved after the Vilnius summit held at the end of 2013 and will outline guidelines for further cooperation and development of the programme, said the presidential press service. […]

President Dalia Grybauskaitė interviewed by Gundars Reders. LTV screenshot

Lithuanian president snaps at Latvian journalist after being asked about gay rights and basketball

May 20, 2015 DELFI EN 0

A Latvian journalist has felt the wrath of the Lithuanian president after asking several questions that “have not been agreed upon”. The president insistently, and rather gracelessly, refused to answer questions about gay rights in Lithuania, a supermarket roof collapse in Riga and basketball. […]

Lithuanian president critical of “failure to coordinate” among institutions in missing plane search

May 19, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has commented that the search and rescue operation launched in order find a missing An-2 airplane and its two pilots has revealed that Lithuanian institutions responsible for search and rescue missions fail to properly cooperate and coordinate among themselves. […]