European Union
GIPL funding agreement signed in Brussels
An agreement on financial assistance for the Gas Interconnection Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) project was signed at the European Commission‘s building Berlaymont on Thursday. […]
Jean-Claude Juncker
Opinion
Opinion: Mandatory refugee quotas are threat to Lithuania’s sovereignty
On Tuesday, the European Union‘s (EU) interior ministers accepted a plan to redistribute 160,000 refugees that had come to Europe. Similar talks one week earlier failed, because several Central-Eastern European countries opposed the scheme. Lithuania has already committed itself to accepting 1,105 refugees; in the long run, though, the number might grow ten times. […]
European Union
EC will not cut support to EU nations refusing refugee quotas
The European Commission (EC) stated on Tuesday it was not considering to cut European Union (EU) structural assistance to countries that disagree with the mandatory migrant quotas. […]
Society
European Union
Juncker warns Moscow that EU borders are ‘untouchable’
European Commission head Jean-Claude Juncker warned Moscow Wednesday the security of European Union member nations was sacrosanct, amid growing alarm in eastern states over the crisis in Ukraine. […]
European Union
Opinion
Opinion: Tsipras’s attempt to use Communist Youth Lessons on Greece
If we all sat at a table in a tavern, having fun eating and drinking and then decided to vote if we wanted to pay the bill or not, the chances are that most would vote to pay the bill. What would a table like that look like from the side as it flaunts the results of that vote, demanding that the customers’ opinion be respected and their vote not be trampled on? […]
Opinion
Opinion: Open season on scapegoats in Europe
It’s an open season on scapegoats in Europe. If you are not guilty of something, you must be coming from a founding Member State. You can be blamed for bad finances, lack of solidarity or ambition. All these “sins” are disproportionate to the size of your economy and wealth of your society. […]
European Union
Lithuanian President to attend Eastern Partnership summit in Riga
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday and Friday is attending the EU Eastern Partnership summit in Riga. The summit will review the results of the Eastern Partnership programme achieved after the Vilnius summit held at the end of 2013 and will outline guidelines for further cooperation and development of the programme, said the presidential press service. […]
Foreign affairs
President Grybauskaitė: Most important EU issues will be discussed in Aachen
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is going to Aachen, Germany, on Wednesday to attend the Charlemagne Prize award ceremony. She is invited to take part in the festive events as laureate of the Charlemagne Prize 2013. […]
European Union
Energy union, the EU’s next revolution
Big changes often seem to move forward painfully slowly, while the most sweeping of them get triggered by steps no one thought very consequential. It is especially true of the policies of the European Union with its notoriously cumbersome decision-making procedures and contradictory interests. Could the energy union be its next big thing? […]
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European Commission approves Energy Union plan
The EU Commission has approved proposals to create a single European energy market. The Energy Union plan would give the Commission more influence in the negotiation of gas supply contracts. […]
European Union
European Commission launches work on Energy Union
The European Commission on Wednesday launched work on the Energy Union, a fundamental step towards the completion of single energy market and reforming how Europe produces, transports and consumes energy, according to a press release. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuania, Italy deliver humanitarian aid to Ukraine
Lithuania will deliver a shipment of humanitarian aid worth EUR 83,532 in response to the appeal of the Head of the European Commission DG for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection, Lithuania’s MFA said. […]
European Union
Lithuania mulls contributing to EFSI, finance minister says
Lithuania is considering to contribute to the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), or the so-called “Juncker-plan”, but it would like to see that money earmarked for projects of the Baltic region. […]
European Union
EU leaders to discuss investment and relations with Russia
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is going to Brussels on Thursday to attend a two-day European Council meeting that will focus on a new investment plan and relations with Russia. […]
European Union
Juncker’s new investment plan may not be suitable for Lithuania, analyst says
New ambitious investment program, which has been worked out by the European Commission, may not be suitable for Lithuania, an analyst says. […]
European Union
EU Commissioner Andriukaitis: Russia’s embargo issue to be solved at WTO level
Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety delegated by Lithuania, assured the Government that issues relating to the Russian embargo will be solved on the level of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). […]
European Union
Baltic and Finnish farmers send new assistance request to EU
Baltic States and Finnish agricultural organizations submitted a repeated appeal for help to the European Commission, LETA/Public Broadcasting reports. […]