Although the Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) is less debated in Lithuania than in many larger member states of the European Union, recent charges by a large investor, Veolia, against Lithuania illustrate the fears that many, especially European green movements, have had about the agreement all along. […]
EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis said there was little difference between the nationalist outlook of Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Hungarian leader Viktor Orban and Lithuania’s first post-independent leader, Vytautas Landsbergis. […]
The EU is seeking new powers to vet gas contracts between Russia and EU countries like Lithuania and the Baltic States before they are signed in an effort to curb the influence of Gazprom on European Union gas markets. […]
Ping pong of historical references pepper European Parliament debate on Poland reforms and European Commission investigation […]
Policymakers increasingly admit that Europe’s refugee relocation mechanism is stalling – countries like Lithuania feel it first-hand. Lithuania’s participation has not started on a high note – the only family (four persons) relocated under the mechanism is already suing the country for granting legal protection rather than refugee status. […]
After Lithuania legalized bankruptcy procedures for individuals three years ago, only 17 people have made use of the relief from their debts by declaring bankruptcy. Another 900 have started bankruptcy procedures which take three years. Lithuanians who want to go bankrupt faster and easier still prefer to do it in Latvia or the United Kingdom. […]
The European Commission could find additional funding for handling the refugee crisis by reviewing the European Union‘s budget, said Lithuanian Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius. […]
Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius and LRT.lt Editor-in-Chief Vladimiras Laučius sat down to talk about some of the greatest issues challenging the unity of the European Union. The distribution of power among the EU’s institutions, the Schengen zone, and the future of the refugees coming to Europe will all be tested in 2016. […]
Warsaw cannot ignore the fundamental rules of the European Union said a leading Lithuanian political scientist as the European Commission opened an unprecedented investigation into the rule of law in Poland. […]
Russia’s energy minister said a second gas pipeline, Nordstream 2, that will bypass the Baltic States and Poland to supply Germany directly with natural gas was a key energy project for Russia in 2016. […]
The European Commission is working “in two directions” on an anti-monopoly investigation of Russia‘s gas company Gazprom, EU competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager said. […]
Though a wave of discontent spread though the ruling coalition when Minister of Finance Rimantas Šadžius was appointed to be Lithuania’s representative to the EU’s Court of Auditors, it seems like those waves are subsiding. […]
Four Lithuanians have been ranked among the highest earning professionals in the institutions of the European Union. […]
Lithuania’s Social Democratic Party needs to run on a truly social democratic platform, centred around a reformed and fairer tax system and social services in this year’s elections ,according to European Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis. […]
Lithuania’s foreign policy-makers are “shooting themselves in the foot” with their confrontational tone and criticism of anything the European Union does to engage Russia, said Lithuanian European Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis. […]
The Lithuanian parliament, with the blessing of President Dalia Grybauskaitė, approved a generous government budget for the year 2016 but views of whether such a budget is prudent are mixed. […]
Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius says that 2015 was a breakthrough in tax collection for Lithuania and that extra revenue is projected for 2016. […]
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