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Foreign affairs
Lithuania sees China is a priority food product export market – PM
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that Lithuania is ready to continue its cooperation with China and sees the world’s largest country by population as one of its key agricultural and food product export markets. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian PM, China’s agriculture minister to discuss food exports
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is meeting on Friday with Chinese Agriculture Minister Han Changfu, on his first visit to Lithuania, to discuss Lithuanian agricultural and food product exports to the Asian market. […]
Politics
Lithuania ruling parties move to lower yes-vote threshold for dual citizenship referendum
The leaders of the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union (LVŽS) and its junior government coalition partner, the Lithuanian Social Democratic Labor Party (LSDDP), propose to lower the yes-vote threshold for a dual citizenship referendum. […]
Energy
Lithuania may contest EC decision not to fine Gazprom – PM
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis does not rule out contesting the European Commission‘s decision not to fine Russia‘s gas giant Gazprom, saying that the same criteria should apply when deciding on anti-trust infringements. […]
Energy
EC’s decision not to fine Gazprom would be strange, Lithuanian PM says
The European Commission‘s decision not to fine Russian gas giant Gazprom over its activity in Central and Eastern Europe would be strange, Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says. […]
Energy
Lietuvos Energija hopes to dispel doubts about its CHP plants – CEO
Lietuvos Energija (Lithuanian Energy) expects to dispel Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis‘ doubts about its waste-to-energy combined heat and power (CHP) plant projects in Vilnius and Kaunas, the state-owned energy group’s CEO said. […]
Politics
Lifting ban on business donations to parties would make buying them legal – Grybauskaitė
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that lifting the existing ban on businesses to financially support political parties would legitimize the buying of them. […]
Politics
Government to approve tax, pension reforms
Lithuania’s government is expected to give its final approval to bills on planned tax, pension and other structural reforms. […]
CORPORATE
The calm before the storm: a revolt brewing in the “Farmer” ranks
The threat of breaking up is looming over the Lithuanian Farmer and Greens Union (LVŽS) Seimas group: some ten members may withdraw from it. Povilas Urbšys, who left the “Farmers” last week and could have […]
Politics
PM plans to return to discussions on political party funding model
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that politicians will return to discussions on political party funding after the parliament’s Committee on National Security and Defense issues the findings in its probe on links between businesses and politics. […]
CORPORATE
Newest ratings: one candidate’s decision could radically change the situation
Gitanas Nausėda retains the lead in the top three highest rated presidential candidates, with Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis taking respectively second and third place. This is based on an April […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian PM to present structural reforms to IMF mission
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis will present his government’s planned structural reforms to an IMF mission finishing its work in Vilnius on Monday. […]
Sports
Government to consider repaying BC Žalgiris EUR 580,000 in old debt – PM
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Monday that the government will look at the possibility of paying back 2 million litas (EUR 579,000) in old debt to Žalgiris Kaunas after the basketball team finished third in this year’s Euroleague. […]
Foreign affairs
Lithuanian president, PM extend condolences over plane crash in Cuba
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis have extended their condolences to the people of Cuba over the loss of many lives in a tragic plane crash near Havana’s airport. […]
Economy
Work-related immigration in Lithuania more than doubles
The number of foreigners coming to Lithuania to work has more than doubled this year, new figures show, amid the government’s plans to introduce restrictions on work-related immigration. […]
Politics
Nausėda, Skvernelis, Matijošaitis among top candidates for Lithuania’s president – survey
Economist Gitanas Nausėda, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Kaunas Mayor Visvaldas Matijošaitis have the strongest chances of winning the presidential election next year, the latest public poll shows. […]
Politics
Government asks prosecutors to look at transparency of Lietuvos Energija CHP projects
The Lithuanian has this week turned to the Prosecutor General’s Office over the combined heat and power (CHP) plant projects developed in Vilnius and Kaunas by the state-owned energy group Lietuvos Energija (Lithuanian Energy), Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Friday. […]
Defence
Hosting allied troops in Lithuania would reveal legal gaps – PM
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that hosting allied NATO troops in Lithuania would reveal gaps in the legal regulation. […]
CORPORATE
A few notes about the Augean stables of Lithuanian politics
Several last weeks with the e-mails from Eligijus Masiulis, former Liberal Movement Party leader and who is currently under criminal investigation, a scandal of e-mails from Ms. President with a „tulip“ pseudonym, hidden political influences from the MG Baltic corporation and leaked files from the State Security Department about politico-business relations at least partially opened the curtain of the backstage „kitchen“ of Lithuanian politics. Although it was not a big surprise to the insiders of national politics that instead of kitchen of politics we might be brought suddenly to the Augean stables. And exactly this has happened. A smell and picture here are far from nice. […]