The United Kingdom aims to curb “destabilizing” migration flows within the European Union (EU) and does not rule out it may demand amendments to the EU treaty, British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said in Lithuania on Thursday. […]
On 8 January in Vilnius, Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius met with Foreign Secretary of the United Kingdom Philip Hammond. The ministers discussed the European agenda, the implementation of NATO’s decisions, strengthening of security in the region, situation in Ukraine, the Eastern Partnership and relations with Russia. […]
On Wednesday, 7 January, Lithuania’s entry into the eurozone was a cause for celebration in the US capital. During a very well attended ceremony at the EU Delegation Lithuania was fêted as the 19th euro area member. […]
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius has met with Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Gijsbert Hendrik Christiaan Van Der Lingen, who starts his diplomatic service in Lithuania. […]
Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem has congratulated Lithuania on joining the euro area. […]
Lithuania, as an active member of international community – NATO, the European Union, the United Nations – this year is planning to participate in six multinational operations and missions, about 100 Lithuanian troops will be deployed abroad, the Ministry of National Defence said. […]
The first day of this year is the first day of Lithuania with the euro. It is an unavoidable fact, although probably everyone is already tired of hearing the word euro. I must admit: it is certainly much better that the euro is not in everyone’s lips but in everyone’s pockets. Soon enough the currency change fever will go down and we will be less concerned with the pros and cons of having the euro than with having as many euros as we can. […]
Lithuania expects the six-month Latvian presidency of the European Union (EU) Council, which is starting on Thursday, to focus on the Eastern Partnership program. […]
Latvian Prime Minister Laimdota Straujuma (Unity) has congratulated Lithuania with its accession to the euro zone on 1 January 2015, the government’s press service informed LETA. […]
The Seimas of Lithuania has closed its fifth ordinary autumn session with 45 plenary sittings held from 10 September to 23 December and around 360 laws, 65 resolutions and 5 other legal acts adopted, the press service of the Seimas said. […]
What kind of a country bids farewell to its currency for the third time over less than 25 years? […]
The European Commission has congratulated Lithuania on its forthcoming euro zone membership on 1 January with a huge banner on the Berlaymont building in Brussels. […]
Lithuania is set to recall its Ambassador to NATO Kęstutis Jankauskas in the middle of January. The Seimas Committee on Foreign Affairs has already approved his recall as of 13 January. […]
Lithuanian producers are concerned about the United Kingdom‘s nutrition labelling system which uses the colours of traffic lights. Most traditional Lithuanian goods, cheese, ham, honey and jam, will be marked in red despite being made of natural ingredients. […]
An international panel of experts has recommended to the European Commission to approve Kaunas City Municipality’s application ‘Kaunas of 1919-1940’ and to include the city in the list of the European Heritage Label sites. The European Commission will adopt a decision by 15 February 2015. […]
Internet usage has become very widespread amongst the EU population, and not only are more and more people using the internet, but they also use it more and more often, with almost two-thirds (65 percent) of individuals aged 16 to 74 in the European Union using the internet daily in 2014, compared with less than a third (31 percent) in 2006. During the same period, the percentage of individuals in the EU that have never used the internet dropped from 43 percent in 2006 to 18 percent in 2014, Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU announced. […]
The United Nations confirmed 18 December as the International Migrants Day. On this day countries are encouraged to discuss migration problems. […]
The crisis in Ukraine, and in particular Russia‘s recent cancellation of the South Stream natural gas pipeline project, has had substantial ripple effects on the energy dynamics on the European continent. The Russians and Europeans both have put forth several potential replacements for the now scrapped pipeline, with Turkey likely to play a pivotal role either way. […]
Lithuanian Ambassador to NATO Kęstutis Jankauskas has been appointed head of the European Union‘s Monitoring Mission in Georgia, the EU Council and the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. […]
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