Euros
Economy

Lithuanian PM promises to raise minimum wage in July

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that the minimum monthly wage will be raised since 1 July 2015. Even though economic growth indicators of the first months of 2015 are not too encouraging, yet the prime minister says it is too early to tell how Lithuania will fare in collecting state budget revenue and thus salaries should grow. […]

President Dalia Grybauskaitė was presented with Ukraine's Person of the Year 2014 award in in Kyiv Źródło: lrp.lt

Ukraine’s Person of Year title is recognition for whole of Lithuania – Grybauskaitė

On March 21, during a solemn ceremony at the National Art Palace Ukraine in Kyiv, President Dalia Grybauskaitė was presented with Ukraine’s Person of the Year 2014 award. The title was bestowed on the president of Lithuania for her solid support to Ukraine’s independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity and European aspirations, the presidential press service said. […]

D. Grybauskaitė, F. Mogherini, M. Schultzas, A. Merkel, N. Anastasiades
European Union

EU to work out plan by June against Russian “disinformation campaigns”

The European Union‘s (EU) institutions intend to work out a strategic communication plan by June to “challenge Russia‘s ongoing disinformation campaigns”, heads of EU states and governments have agreed in Brussels. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Society

Prosecutor wants to question Lithuanian president in her spokeswoman’s case

Prosecutor Gintas Ivanauskas of the Lithuanian Prosecutor General‘s Office wants to question the country’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė in the case of her spokeswoman Daiva Ulbinaitė who is accused of having leaked classified information. […]

Dalia Grybauskaitė
Defence

Restoring conscription is “necessity”, Lithuanian president says

As the Seimas of Lithuania, parliament, is set to discuss the proposed partial restoration of conscription, the country’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says it’s the only way to strengthen the Lithuanian army in the existing geopolitical situation. […]