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European Union

Lithuania seeks equal direct payments for farmers – Grybauskaitė in Brussels

Lithuania seeks that direct payments to its farmers are as close as possible to those received by their counterparts in the EU’s “old” member states, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said at a informal meeting of EU leaders in Brussels on Friday. […]

Ministry of Economy
Politics

Lithuanian government approves state enterprises’ reorganization plan

The Lithuanian government approved on Wednesday a plan for reorganizing companies that hold the status of state enterprises. […]

Ignalina NPP CEO Darius Janulevičius
Society

Lithuanian law-enforcement end probe on activities of N-plant’s executives

Lithuania’s law-enforcement have completed the pre-trial investigation into the 1.5-million-euro auction organized by the Ignalina nuclear power plant (NPP) in 2014. Abuse suspicions were brought against six individuals, including Ignalina’s current CEO Darius Janulevičius, former CEO Osvaldas Čiukšys and former former head of the commercial division, Lauras Puslys. […]

Guenther Oettinger
Economy

EU’s Oettinger promises to back Lithuania on Ignalina N-plant closure funding

EU Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger promises to help Lithuania to secure further EU funding for the decommissioning of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), saying that the country would not be capable of bearing such a heavy financial burden on its own. […]