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Baltic PMs in Tallinn to settle disputes on energy projects

May 8, 2017 BNS EN 0

The prime ministers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are meeting in Tallinn on Monday to work on their disputes on strategic gas and energy projects. No specific decisions and agreements should be signed Monday, however, the conversations are crucial for Lithuania that aims to persuade the other countries on the need for the liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal to secure European funding, as well as the possibility to synchronize power grids via Poland in a single link. […]

Skvernelis: Ministers won‘t be seasonal workers

May 5, 2017 Media Briefing 0

The current Government works like team and separate ministries are no longer untouchable by a party, said the Prime Minister (PM) Saulius Skvernelis. He states, that they are trying to get rid of a certain […]

Social Democrats’ new leader promises to back university reform principles

May 5, 2017 BNS EN 0

Gintautas Paluckas, the newly-elected leader of the Social Democratic Party (LSDP), says that the party’s political group in the Seimas will support the principles for a reform of universities proposed by a prime minister-appointed working group. […]

Matulionis takes post as Prime Minister’s foreign policy adviser

May 5, 2017 BNS EN 0

Deividas Matulionis, Lithuania’s former ambassador to Germany, on Friday took post as foreign policy adviser to Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis. […]

Interior Ministry cancels competition for new financial crimes agency chief

May 5, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s Interior Ministry has called off the competition for chief of the Financial Crimes Investigation Service. Minister Eimutis Misiunas said the step was taken with green light from the government about the need to revise the scheme of appointment and in preparation for restructuring of the institution. […]

Government to put university reform plan for public discussion

May 4, 2017 BNS EN 0

The Lithuanian government was briefed on Wednesday about a reform of universities proposed by a prime minister-appointed working group, but decided to hold a public discussion of the project with the academic community before sending it to the parliament for approval. […]

PM expects to dispel myths in meeting with his Polish counterpart

May 4, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis expects to discuss problems that overshadow bilateral relations and dispel existing myths during next week’s meeting with his Polish counterpart, Beata Szydlo. […]

Analysts: we‘ve never had a Prime Minister like that

May 3, 2017 Media Briefing 0

The rhetoric of Prime Minister (PM) Saulius Skvernelis is massive and this politician did not make the jump from the General Police Commissioner to the Prime Minister’s level. This was said to LRT.lt by the […]

PM to meet with his Baltic, Polish counterparts in Tallinn next week

May 3, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is to meet with the heads of government of Latvia, Estonia and Poland in Tallinn next Monday. […]

PM vows to seek ‘absolute security’ of online voting

May 2, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis says that the government, which plans to introduce online voting in elections, will seek to ensure that the system is “absolutely secure”. […]

Skvernelis says universities won’t be merged by force

May 2, 2017 BNS EN 0

The Lithuanian government will not force consolidation on universities, but new funding rules will make them change, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the ruling Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), said on Tuesday. […]

Paluckas: there is no relationship with the President

May 2, 2017 Media Briefing 0

Labour Code, which will be introduced to the Parliament next week, might not be not be so easily accepted, the Prime Minister (PM) and some of the Farmers and Greens are trying to present. This […]

Business representative destroyed Farmer proposal to raise wages

May 2, 2017 LT Daily 0

In the Government’s instrument plan there is a point in which the Government is committed to reach a national agreement on wages up to this year’s third quarter, jLRT.lt reported. Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis to […]

Political analyst: S. Skvernelis wants to jump from one post to another

April 28, 2017 Media Briefing 0

When looking at the political field for the last few days and the behaviour of the Prime Minister (PM) Saulius Skvernelis, political analysts say that he’s likely preparing for a higher post. Rimvydas Valatka and […]

Energy

Memorandum on Baltic synchronization should be signed in June

April 28, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania and the other states of the Baltic Sea region should sign a memorandum of understanding in June on synchronization of the Baltic states with continental Europe via Poland. The document should give an impetus to the preparations for synchronized work of the networks. […]

Saulius Skvernelis, Ramūnas Karbauskis ir Gintautas Paluckas

Word duel between Skvernelis and Paluckas: who won?

April 28, 2017 Media Briefing 0

„Harsh public rhetoric from Saulius Skvernelis is not new. On the other hand, with him being the most popular politician, there is a need to get attention, and for Gintautas Paluckas, to show everyone that […]

Government not giving up plans to move EnvironMin, AgriMin to Kaunas – PM

April 27, 2017 BNS EN 0

Saulius Skvernelis, prime minister delegated by the Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, says that the plans of moving the ministries of Environment and Agriculture to Kaunas had not been discarded, regardless of the party’s group voting against the proposal of the conservatives earlier on Thursday. […]