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European Commission approves EUR 7.89bn investment programme for Lithuania
On Monday, the European Commission approved EUR 7.89 billion EU Structural and Investment Funds Programme for Lithuania. Its goal is to ensure employment and economic growth. The European Union investment constitutes approximately EUR 6.7 billion of the sum, while Lithuania’s contribution is around EUR 1 billion. […]
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Lithuania to focus on Ukraine’s human rights situation at UN Human Rights Council
The Human Rights Council holds its 27th regular session from 8 to 26 September in Geneva. During the session, Lithuania and other member states of the European Union will pay particular attention to the human rights situation in Ukraine and the Middle East – Syria, the occupied Palestinian territory and Iraq – as well as the right to liberty, development and privacy in the digital age, non-discrimination on grounds such as race and gender, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. […]
Opinion
Opinion: Keeping the Baltic identity alive
The 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way gives food for thought about a number of things: the neo-fascist threats from Russia, about the place of idols and sculptures in Grūtas Park and the museum reminiscent of the occupation of Lithuania, about the security of Lithuania and Ukraine after a quarter of a century since the restoring statehood and about the Baltic identity. […]
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Society
Lithuania’s State Security Department warns citizens to beware of propaganda from Russia
The State Security Department (VSD) issued a statement urging people to be vigilant and not give in to the propaganda campaign waged by Russia in relation to Ukraine. […]
Defence
President Grybauskaitė: Putin is testing NATO leadership
European and NATO leadership must now demonstrate their leadership and keep Russia’s President Vladimir Putin from going too far, Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė says. […]
European Union
EU and US to tighten sanctions on Russia
The EU and the US are to announce tighter Russia sanctions on Friday, with the EU’s draft legal texts targeting state-owned banks, oil technologies and defence goods, EUobserver.com reports. […]
Opinion
Edward Lucas: Russia is winning
I have been dealing with European security for more than thirty years, as an activist during the Cold War, as a journalist, and at think-tanks1. […]
Society
Dozen Lithuanians protest outside Italian Embassy over EU apathy regarding Russia
Just over a dozen people gathered for a rally outside the Italian Embassy in Vilnius on Tuesday to protest against what they said was passive stance of the European Union (EU) presidency and other Western European countries on Russia. […]
European Union
Lithuanian prime minister congratulates Tusk and Mogherini on appointment to EU’s top jobs
Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius has congratulated Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk on his appointment as the new president of the European Council, the prime minister’s press office said. […]
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Ukraine’s ambassador to Vilnius: EU should be on active side of “gas war”, not its victim
Ukraine will never accept the loss of Crimea. Valery Zhovtenko, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Ukraine to Lithuania, said in the exclusive interview to ELTA news agency that only negotiation measures would be used to solve the issue of Crimea. In case it fails, the issue should be taken to international court, whereas the option to use military force is not being considered. […]
European Union
Lithuanian president reveals her vote in EU appointments
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has confirmed that during the recent meeting of the European Council she voted in favour of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk‘s appointment as the new President of the European Council but abstained during the vote on Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini‘s appointment as High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. […]
European Union
Lithuanian foreign minister says Tusk’s and Mogherini’s appointments to top EU jobs are “compromise”
The appointment of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk as the new President of the European Council and Italian Foreign Minister Federica Mogherini as High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy was a compromise solution, Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius says. […]
Defence
President Grybauskaitė: NATO Summit in Wales is an event of vital importance
In an interview with LRT radio the President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that the meeting of the presidents of the three Baltic States with the President of the United States of America (USA) Barack Obama means that the region has very strong support and its concerns are taken seriously. According to her, the NATO summit, which will take place in Wales right after this meeting, is vital in the current geopolitical situation. […]
European Union
Lithuanian MEP addresses his colleagues about situation in Ukraine
Member of the European Parliament Valentinas Mazuronis has addressed his colleagues in the European Parliament in an open letter. The Lithuanian representative has called to apply maximum sanctions against Russia, to impose a full embargo on its military weapons without any exceptions and to provide help to Ukraine. […]
Politics
New deputy environment minister appointed in Lithuania
Algirdas Genevičius took office on Friday as Deputy Minister of Environment. He will oversee waste, pollution prevention, water and the European Union support administration areas. […]
Politics
Lithuanian president proposes fines for propagation of war
Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaitė suggests a provision that at least 90 percent of the television programmes rebroadcast in Lithuania should be in the official languages of the European Union, adding that fines should be imposed for instigation of war and infringement upon independence. […]
Opinion
Opinion: Breaking free from Gazprom is of political and economic benefit
Russian intervention in Ukraine has refocused the attention on the traditional military and security challenges, but the factors that made it possible for today’s Russian attempts to revise the European security architecture should not be forgotten. Primarily, this was the result of the processes in the energy sector that go forward only because of reasoned calls of a part of intellectuals for Europe to stop funding of Vladimir Putin’s regime. […]
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