Friday the European Commission‘s record EUR 13.1 billion investment plan for the transport sector came closer to reality, after EU Member States approved the list of projects to receive funding under the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), which includes the Rail Baltica high-speed rail project, the European Commission informs. […]
The European Commission has published its annual report on how it monitored the application of Union law in 2014. Twenty one new infringement cases were opened against Lithuania in 2014. […]
Federica Mogherini, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and Vice-President of the European Commission, will pay an official visit to Lithuania on 2 July. […]
The European Commission on Monday proposed earmarking 548 million euros in support for the European standard gauge railway project Rail Baltica, worth 665 million euros in total. […]
Although eurozone finance ministers have not extended Greece‘s bailout program, the country stays in the single currency, Lithuanian Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius has said, adding that the EU will use other means to help Greece, such as structural funding, and that the country now has to take measures to get its financial system under control. […]
The European Council’s decision to relocate 40,000 refuges from Greece and Italy to other EU member states over the next two years is a symbolic step, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says, adding that the migration problem needs a more serious solution. […]
Europe’s new front-line states are the Nordic countries, Baltic countries, plus Poland, which share a common concern about a “revisionist and rapidly-rearming Russia”, according to the Baltic Sea Security Report by the Centre for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). […]
The Lithuanian government gave a green light on Monday to receiving up to 250 refugees distributed by the European Commission (EC) in an effort to help ease the Mediterranean refugee crisis. […]
After negotiations between Greece and its international lenders failed, the country’s future in the eurozone may not be settled until this autumn, says Lithuania’s Finance Minister Rimantas Šadžius. Asked to comment whether Greek banks will open on Monday, the minister said he was not sure. […]
Georgia is disappointed with the stalling visa-free talks with the European Union (EU); however, it is fully capable of achieving the objective before the end of this year, says Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. […]
The European Commission‘s Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis says that the principle of voluntary solidarity earlier applied in the efforts to solve the refugee crisis in Southern Europe did not work, therefore, a mechanism of balanced distribution of asylum-seekers is required. […]
If Greece fails to reach a debt deal with the European Union, the country may fall back into recession, Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Commission‘s vice-president for the euro and social dialogue, said in Vilnius on Tuesday. […]
Lithuania and 18 other EU member states may exceed their 2020 renewable energy targets, the European Commission said in its latest renewable energy progress report published on Tuesday. […]
Valdis Dombrovskis, the European Commission‘s vice-president for the euro and social dialogue, has warned that Lithuania’s budget deficit should not increase this year, noting that the EU’s executive body forecasts that the country’s budget deficit in 2015 will be 0.7-0.8 percentage points above the target. […]
Rebecca Harms, Co-Chair of the Group of the Greens at the European Parliament, says that shale gas extraction will not contribute to reducing carbon dioxide emissions. And if shale gas is going to be extracted, then tight regulation related to environment and water resources is needed. […]
Lithuania’s Prime Minister has met with the European Commission’s (EC) officials to discuss financing for projects, implemented by Lithuania, from the European Investment Fund. […]
Lithuania could take in up to 250 refugees, President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
The Lithuanian government on Monday agreed in principle to grant the status of an economic project of national importance to the planned conversion of the Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports, a now derelict building that was built more than 40 years ago on the site of a former Jewish cemetery, to a centre for conventions and cultural events. […]
The meeting of the European Union‘s (EU) Justice and Home Affairs Council next week should establish the number of refugees Lithuania will have to accept, Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis says. […]
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