Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Vilija Blinkevičiūtė together with her colleagues has proposed that 2016 should be named the European year to fight violence against women. The initiative has been supported by over 400 MEPs. […]
Lithuania is “not enthusiastic” about the European Commission‘s proposal to introduce quotas for EU member states to accept a certain number of migrants from Africa, the country’s Permanent Representative to the EU Raimundas Karoblis says. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says he does not know how many immigrants Lithuania could accept if the European Commission‘s plan on migration quotas is implemented. According to the prime minister, immigrants have a huge effect on a country’s economy. […]
Commissioner for Transport Violeta Bulc has expressed her interest in the progress of the Rail Baltica project, as, according to her, the Baltic states are currently a “black hole” which needs to be incorporated in the European Union‘s (EU) transport network. […]
Lithuania’s Equal Opportunities Ombudsperson‘s Office has received a complaint over its own social anti-violence campaign “Men for Women” showing men as dogs, pigs and jackasses and calling on men not to use violence against women. […]
The European Commission (EC) announced in its Spring 2015 Economic Forecast that Lithuania’s gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to grow by 2.8 percent, whereas domestic consumption should be the major factor determining economic growth. […]
On Monday, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström spoke at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC. She provided an update to a large audience of trade specialists, interest groups and a large contingent of diplomatic staff in the US Capital as to how the EU is progressing with its trade strategy, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), given today’s realities. […]
The European Commission (EC) has asked four member-states, including Lithuania, to ensure the mandatory exchange of information under the European Union (EU) document security legislation and the integration of biometric features in residence permits, the EC reports. […]
Russian ambassador to the European Union has accused Lithuania of being the sole force behind the European Commission‘s investigation into possible market abuses by Gazprom. He also says the case against the Russian state-owned gas company is political. […]
European Commission officials have checked progress in decommissioning of Lithuania’s shut-down Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP). […]
The situation in the Lithuanian gas market has changed materially in recent years and now it’s up to the country to decide where to buy gas, the country’s energy minister has said in comments about antitrust charges on Wednesday filed by the European Commission (EC) against the Russian gas concern Gazprom. […]
The Kremlin expects impartial treatment for Gazprom under the antimonopoly probe and reaching a compromise with the European Commission, Dmitry Peskov, Press Secretary of the Russian President, said on Wednesday. […]
The case against alleged abuse of dominance by Russia’s gas giant Gazprom is not political, the European Union’s Commissioner for Competition Policy has said. […]
Gazprom might have charged unfair gas prices and abused dominance, the European Commission (EC) has said after completing a probe into possible abuse of monopoly power by the Russian gas giant in some Central and Eastern European countries. […]
European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis of Lithuania has undergone a surgical procedure in Vilnius. […]
The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is the instrument through which the European Union (EU) aims to create bonds between its Member States and the countries at the boundaries of the EU and thus secure the stability of the European borders. The EU stipulates Association Agreements offering financial support and other advantages in exchange for a commitment to implement reforms. There are two action plans within the ENP: the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and the Eastern Partnership (EaP). […]
Lithuanian writer Undinė Radzevičiūtė has been awarded the European Union’s Prize for Literature of 2015. […]
Companies should pay a fair share of taxes on the money they earn, and governments should not favor certain businesses by giving them advantages not available to others. This sounds straightforward, but the reality is not. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says it is unrealistic to expect that European milk quota regime will be extended, but Lithuanian farmers can expect greater direct payments in the future. […]
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