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EU Commissioner Andriukaitis: Selection among refugees for resettlement is immoral

October 29, 2015 www.lrt.lt 0

EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis has slammed discussions in Lithuania about selection criteria for refugee resettlement. According to Andriukaitis, who was Lithuania’s healthcare minister before taking the job with the EU Commission, said that selections among people in the face of the current humanitarian crisis would be immoral and go against everything Europe holds as principles. […]

Lithuania’s foreign minister insists on continuing Russia sanctions

October 29, 2015 Ziniu radijas 0

Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius believes that the European Union (EU) should continue its policy of sanctions on Russia, since it is the only way to get Moscow to listen. […]

Lithuania moves up in World Bank’s Doing Business report

October 28, 2015 ELTA EN 0

In the Doing Business 2016 report by the World Bank, Lithuania moved one positions up compared to the previous year and came 20th among 189 economies in the world, while among member-states of the European Union it was 8th this year. […]

Lithuania’s resource productivity among lowest in EU

October 27, 2015 ELTA EN 0

In 2014, Lithuania’s resource productivity accounted for only 0.65 EUR/kg, down by 1.1 percent since 2012. The country’s domestic material consumption stood at 50.4 million tons, up by 59.8 percent from 2012, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union (EU), reports. […]

Lithuania’s economic growth expected to accelerate to 3 percent in 2016-2017

October 26, 2015 ELTA EN 0

The Baltic countries and Central Europe will continue to show decent economic growth, primarily sustained by growing domestic demand. Poland and the Czech Republic will lead the way, according to Eastern European Outlook published by SEB Banka. […]

Lithuania falls short of its development aid commitments

October 23, 2015 www.lrt.lt 0

Proudly transitioning from an aid receiver to an affluent Western society, Lithuania has yet to live up to its commitments of financial help to the world’s poorest. […]

Opinion: Reset with Belarus?

October 23, 2015 Marius Laurinavicius 0

Conventional wisdom dictates vision before planning. It seems neither are present in the cautious, yet steady Western reset with Belarus, whose authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko recently secured his fifth term in elections widely considered to be flawed, argues Marius Laurinavičius, fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA). […]

Experts slam Lithuania’s refugee selection criteria

October 23, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuanian officials in charge of resettling refugees from Syria in Lithuania and putting together plans for their integration have said they will use selection criteria like family status and religion to ensure smoother integration. That would be a mistake, experts say. […]

Lithuanian political scientist: politicians desperate to see change in Belarus but there just isn’t any

October 19, 2015 www.lrt.lt 0

The recent presidential election in Belarus secured presidency for Alexander Lukashenko for the fifth term. Prior to the vote, the Belarusian regime released political prisoners, which the European Union took as a gesture of good will and is talking about suspending sanctions against Lukashenko and his officials. However, such optimism about change in Belarus is misguided, says political scientist Vytis Jurkonis of the Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University. […]

Taavi Roivas, Dalia Grybauskaitė, Jean-Claude Juncker, Laimduota Straujuma, Ewa Kopacz, Miguel Canetes

President Grybauskaitė: GIPL will allow to import gas at best price

October 15, 2015 ELTA EN 0

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that gas pipeline with Poland will provide an opportunity for Lithuania not only to import but also to export natural gas, depending on the situation in the market. […]

Disconnecting Baltics from BRELL could cost EUR 800m

October 15, 2015 ELTA EN 0

According to representatives of the European Commission (EC), synchronisation of the Baltic states’ power network with transmission systems of the West could cost approximately EUR 800 million, including the LitPol Link electricity connection with Poland. […]

Russia’s actions in Syria only escalate conflict, Lithuanian foreign minister says

October 13, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius took part in the European Union‘s (EU) Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels on 12 October, which focused on the situation in Syria and migration, Lithuania’s MFA said. […]

Commission to ‘promote’ Lithuania among refugees

October 13, 2015 www.lrt.lt 0

An interdepartmental commission, set up in Lithuania to oversee resettlement and integration of refugees, is putting together a plan how to promote the country among asylum seekers. Lithuania has pledged to resettle 1,105 refugees as part of an EU effort to ease the refugee crisis and will seek that the asylum seekers come to the country willingly. […]

EU should lift Belarus sanctions by the end of October, Lithuanian minister says

October 13, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

The European Union should make the decision to lift sanctions on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko by the end of the month, according to Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, LRT.lt reports. […]

NordBalt to provide more energy security for 6m people in Baltics

October 12, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Two months remain until the completion of the biggest joint Swedish and Lithuanian project NordBalt. In December the electricity produced in Scandinavia will be transmitted directly to Lithuania for the first time in history. King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden along with the President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė evaluated the NordBalt implementation progress while visiting the construction site of the NordBalt high voltage direct current (HVDC) converter station in Klaipėda. […]

Lithuanian foreign minister OK with EU lifting sanctions on Belarus

October 9, 2015 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says he is in favour of the European Union lifting sanctions on Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. […]

Lithuania receives first installment of EIB loan

October 8, 2015 ELTA EN 0

On Thursday, 8 October, Lithuania received the first part of a loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB), EUR 300 million. Lithuania will pay 1.51 percent annual interest which has been fixed for the duration of the loan, i.e., 25 years. […]

Lithuanian interior minister says EU’s return policy should be more ambitious

October 8, 2015 ELTA EN 0

On Thursday Lithuania’s Interior Minister Saulius Skvernelis is attending the European Union‘s (EU) Justice and Home Affairs Council in Luxembourg. Responding to a recent refugee crisis, ministers of the EU member states will negotiate on external border control and on the future of return policies as well as on the implementation of the decision to relocate 40,000 migrants from Italy and Greece. […]

Lithuanian MEP appeals to EC saying Nord Stream 2 violates EU law

October 8, 2015 ELTA EN 0

On Thursday, MEP Gabrielius Landsbergis addressed Maroš Šefčovič, Vice President of the European Commission in charge of the Energy Union, and Margrethe Vestager, European Commissioner for competition, saying that the planned Nord Stream 2 project contravenes primary energy security objectives of the European Union (EU) and the Third Energy Package. […]

Refugees will not be forced to come to Lithuania, PM says

October 7, 2015 ELTA EN 0

As a Lithuanian delegation is visiting Greece and unsuccessfully looking for refugees who could be resettled to Lithuania, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says that migrants will not be brought to Lithuania by force. He hopes to find ways to encourage refugees to come here voluntarily. […]