Looking back at the achievements of the government headed by social democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius over 2015, President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that while there are considerable accomplishments, procrastination in certain area will mean that the next government will inherit serious problems. […]
The Lithuanian government wants to appoint Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius to the European Court of Auditors. […]
Lithuanians should show their support for the EU not just in relation to EU investments in energy projects in Lithuania but also in helping other EU member states to solve the refugee crisis, says Vytenis Andriukaitis, the EU Health and Food Safety Commissioner. […]
Georgia and Ukraine meet all benchmarks to be granted visa-free travel to the European Union, according to a report of the European Commission. Georgians and Ukrainians might be able to travel to the Schengen zone without visas as soon as next year. […]
Attending the European Council on Thursday, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė said that Lithuania would not participate in the newly suggested refugee resettlement from Turkey scheme until the earlier quota of 1,105 asylum seekers for Lithuania is completed. […]
On Thursday, 17 December, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will travel to Brussels to attend a European Council meeting and discuss additional measures to manage the migration crisis, including the setting up of a European Border and Coast Guard. European leaders will also exchange views on how to strengthen the EU’s energy union and will address EU reforms proposed by the United Kingdom, the presidency said. […]
On Wednesday, the European Commission adopted the new cross-border cooperation programme INTERREG V-A Lithuania – Poland, whose total budget is €62 million, of which more than €53 million will be provided from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). […]
Lithuania has said it supports the European Commission‘s proposal to set up a European border guard service but has reservations about granting it the right to act without the host nation’s consent. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that she is going to sign the 2016 budget, endorsed by parliament last week, into law, although it has been criticised by the European Commission and the National Audit Office. […]
There are good things in next year’s budget, like the increase of national defence budget, but Lithuania will also begin to lose its reputation with international financial institutions and finance markets, Andrius Kubilius, the leader of the opposition in the Seimas (parliament), told Žinių Radijas radio. […]
Lithuanian leaders and their counterparts from the Baltic states and Poland are on Monday officially inaugurating the interconnections LitPol Link and NordBalt, lauded as key projects to usher the country into the new era of energy independence. […]
Over the last two years, Lithuania has made significant progress in its fight against corruption, reveals the latest Eurobarometer study on Businesses‘ Attitudes towards Corruption in the European Union. […]
After the second reading of the draft state budget, leader of the Seimas opposition Andrius Kubilius criticised the governing parties for their “trite attitude” towards the findings of the National Audit Office and the European Commission. […]
The Lithuanian Parliament has asked the Government to address the European Commission with the proposal that the European Union member states be allowed to decide themselves whether to follow the daylight saving time. The Government must forward the proposal to the European Commission by 30 April 2016 at the latest. […]
Negotiation groups of the Baltic States and the European Commission signed three agreements in Tallinn securing EUR 734 million funding from the EU for new Rail Baltica development stages in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. […]
The Eurogroup, which has discussed the European Commission‘s (EC) recent assessments of 2016 Draft Budgetary Plans (DPBs) of the Eurozone member-states, expressed doubts about the EC assessment of the Lithuanian economic cycle […]
The Small Business Act for Europe report shows that Lithuania exceeded the EU average in areas of entrepreneurship, administration, state support, public procurement, funding possibilities and the overall market situation. […]
Prime Minister of Lithuania Algirdas Butkevičius met with Vice President of the European Commission (EC) in charge of the Energy Union Maroš Šefčovič in Brussels on Thursday. According to the prime minister, establishing the internal energy market in Europe is a priority objective for Lithuania. […]
Lithuania’s draft budget for 2016 allows for conservative optimism, says Loreta Graužinienė, speaker of the Seimas. According to the parliament’s leader, there is no risk that budget spending would exceed income in 2016 more than projected. […]
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