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PM to spend vacation in Spain, president has no vacation plans

June 18, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis plans to spend his vacation in Spain and Speaker of the Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis will spend time between the parliamentary sessions in Lithuania. […]

Lithuanian Seimas speaker to visit US in late June

June 11, 2018 BNS 0

Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas Viktoras Pranckietis will pay a visit to the United States in late June. […]

Lithuania’s top officials intend to use alternative name for Georgia

May 7, 2018 BNS 0

Lithuania’s top officials intend to use “Sakartvelas”, an alternative name for “Gruzija”, the current name for Georgia used by Lithuanians, that was approved by the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language (VLKK) this week. […]

Širinskienė refuses to join a discussion due to Jakilaitis‘ participation

March 9, 2018 Dalia Plikune 0

“Farmer” Agnė Širinskienė refused to participate in events moderated by journalist Edmundas Jakilaitis while an investigation of the Lithuanian national broadcaster LRT is ongoing in the Seimas. She provided this explanation after refusing to participate […]

Seimas leadership summoning academic ethics watchguard

February 9, 2018 BNS 0

Top leadership of the Lithuanian parliament will Friday look into the situation surrounding Vigilijus Sadauskas, chief of the Service for Academic Ethics and Procedures, who proposed a reward to those who establish crimes committed by Jews in 1900s, a move the Jewish Community of Lithuania dismissed as anti-Semitism. […]

Is Nausėda already forming the ruling majority? Only three parties were invited to meet

October 7, 2024 0

While the heads of the opposition parliamentary parties are ironing their suits and preparing for their meeting with President Gitanas Nausėda, the ruling parties shrug their shoulders. Counting down the days until the parliamentary elections, […]

Complicated Sino-Lithuanian relationship

October 1, 2024 0

As the Seimas elections approach, more parties, especially opposition parties, promise to change their foreign policy. The most significant change, in their view, is in relations with China. The opposition believes that seeing China as […]

Economist speaks out about the unstoppable rise in prices: ‘It’s getting a bit scary’

September 24, 2024 0

Prices in Lithuania decreased by 0.5% over the month, but annual inflation is again approaching the 1% mark. The most significant price increases over the year were in cafes and restaurants – nearly 9%. Some […]

Who could have thought? Germans give us a brigade, we give them electricity

September 20, 2024 0

Rokas Masiulis, the Head of the electricity transmission operator Litgrid, was one of the energy experts who, at the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, calmly and even optimistically looked to the future: Lithuania would […]

The EU must stop funding the brutal Cuba regime

September 16, 2024 0

Russia has always been Europe’s enemy. This is something that many of our Western and Central European friends seemed to forget since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Not so in Eastern Europe and the […]

Grybauskaitė effect? Among the candidates for Prime Minister, there is also an option that has not yet been named out loud

September 13, 2024 0

With the parliamentary elections just a month away, party leaders are already working out, in public and behind closed doors, the scenarios for the foundations of the future governing coalition and who will lead the […]