The European Commission remains committed to providing funding for the decommissioning of Lithuania’s Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, said after meeting with EU Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger in Vilnius on Thursday. […]
The European Union must continue to provide funding for the decommissioning of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) as Lithuania is not capable of financing the project on its own, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said ahead of Thursday’s meeting with EU Budget Commissioner Guenther Oettinger. […]
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in Tallinn on Friday to discuss the EU’s possible support for the planned electricity grid synchronization with the Western European system. […]
After German parliamentary elections secured Chancellor Angela Merkel with yet another term in office, Berlin will remain Lithuania’s most important partner in Europe, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]
To secure European support to decommissioning of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) after 2020, Lithuania must demonstrate progress and correct the impression of the project stalling, Energy Vice-Minister Simonas Šatūnas says. […]
Russia’s nuclear energy giant Rosatom, which is building the Astravyets nuclear power plant in Belarus, had plans to gain a foothold in Lithuania, according to declassified material provided by the State Security Department to the parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defence. […]
Several years ago German MEP Rebecca Harms did not think that specifically she will become one of the most outspoken critics of Vladimir Putin when it comes to questions of European security. Now, however, the […]
The new Seimas term begins on Monday, with the Peasant and Greens fraction claiming to hold almost 60 members of 141. As such its proposals will have to be considered by both its coalition partners […]
By stating plans to turn to Lithuania over problems with decommissioning of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Belarus aims to draw the attention from the nuclear utility under construction in Astravyets, says Lithuania’s Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis. […]
The Belarusian call to provide official information about the course of decommissioning of the Lithuanian Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) has to do with the questions raised by Lithuania in connection to the Astravyets nuclear utility under construction in Belarus, says an official of the Lithuanian Environment Ministry. […]
Rising smoke was noticed above Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, a facility in the process of decommissioning in eastern Lithuania, on Monday evening. […]
Lithuania may run short of funds needed to decommission its defunct Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant. The plant’s director Darius Janulevičius says that decommissioning works might require additional €1.2 billion, but the European Union refuses to […]
The Lithuanian air force is to conduct an exercise simulating protecting the Ignalina nuclear plant and handling emergency situations during peacetime. During the exercise, Air Force troops will be simulating protecting the Ignalina nuclear power […]
Energy expert Saulius Kutas believes that Lithuania doesn’t pay enough attention to its energy security. […]
An International Atomic Energy Agency mission (IAEA) is coming to Lithuania for the first time to assess nuclear and radiation safety in Lithuania. IAEA experts will meet with Lithuanian authorities and business representatives, visit and […]
The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP) will need another €900 million for its ongoing decommissioning by 2020, said an INPP official. […]
As Lithuania’s regions face a growing emigration crisis, some have begun calling for measures to deal with the aging apartment buildings that have been left behind as communities shrink. […]
2015 was an intense year full of changes in Lithuania’s energy sector. The Ministry of Energy compiled a list of the ten most important events that have affected the energy sector and consumers the most. […]
The Special Investigation Service (STT) Panevėžys Department detained a person on suspicions of acting in a group of accomplices and misappropriating high-value property of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), which is being decommissioned. The court gave authorisation to arrest the person for ten days. […]
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