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European Union

Lithuanian president, other EU leaders to decide on new phase of Brexit talks

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is Thursday leaving for Brussels where she and other EU leaders will decide on a new phase of talks on the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the bloc. […]

Benjamin Netanyahu
Foreign affairs

EU ministers meeting Israel’s PM at Lithuania’s initiative

A meeting of the foreign ministers of European Union (EU) member-states with Israeli’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is held in Brussels on Monday at Lithuania’s initiative. […]

Vilius Šapoka
European Union

Minister of finance off to Brussels to discuss euro zone national budgets, banking union

Lithuania’s Finance Minister Vilius Šapoka will be in Brussels on Monday and Tuesday to attend meetings of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Ecofin) of the euro group and the European Union (EU). […]

TS-LKD meeting
Foreign affairs

After the European Court of Human Rights ruling – call for release of imprisoned former Prime Minister of Georgia Ivane Merabishvili

The Chairman of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) Gabrielius Landsbergis and members of the TS-LKD Andrius Kubilius (former Prime Minister of Lithuania), Algirdas Saudargas (Member of the European Parliament), Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė (former Member of the European Parliament), Mantas Adomėnas, addressed today the President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili, the Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili and Members of the Parliament of Georgia, calling for immediate release of imprisoned opposition politician Ivane Merabishvili, former Prime Minister of Georgia, a TS-LKD public press release states. […]

Antanarivo, Madagascar
Foreign affairs

Lithuania establishes diplomatic relations with Madagascar

Lithuania has established official diplomatic relations with Madagascar, an East African island country that is best known to Lithuanians because of a utopian idea by Kazys Pakštas, a 20th century geographer, to set up a Lithuanian colony there. […]