European Commissioner Corina Cretu in charge of regional policies has said in Vilnius that the European Union’s (EU) budget would become smaller after Brexit, however, the need to support reduction of social exclusion remains. […]
While currently Ramūnas Karbauskis has the support of a significant portion of the LVŽS fraction, the more moderate Saulius Skvernelis is turning more and more “Peasant” heads, Lietuvos žinios paper reported. The scandal which engulfed […]
European Commissioner Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis of Lithuania in charge of health care and food safety agrees that doctors who receive degrees for money provided by the state should be put under the obligation of working it off in regions. […]
Having met his first serious crisis Ramūnas Karbauskis has proven to lack resistance to criticism. This is how the words of Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis could be interpreted. With Lietuvos Rytas revealing the murky background […]
The Lithuanian government approved on Wednesday an agreement between the three Baltic countries on the development of the European standard-gauge railway Rail Baltica. […]
Neither the Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVŽS) representatives in government, nor their coalition partners see any indications of attempts to overthrow the government. “I definitely do not wish to use such an expression. The […]
Lithuania plans to sign in late January an agreement with Latvia and Estonia on the development of the European standard-gauge railway Rail Baltica. […]
It seems that the new Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is very determined to fight against corruption in his term. On the last day of 2016, the whole Ministers Cabinet was presented with the so-called ‘’Lithuanian corruption map 2016’’ which is based on surveys of Lithuanian society, business and civil servants. On Monday, the Prime Minister met with the head of the Special Investigation Service of the Republic of Lithuania to discuss strengthening measures to fight against corruption, and so on. Promising beginnings! […]
Invest Lithuania, the government’s foreign investment promotion agency, will look at how to attract local and foreign investors to the district of Šalčininkai, in the southeastern part of the country, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Friday. […]
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis thinks that more viewers in Lithuania should have access to Polish TV channels. […]
The idea to implement universal military conscription has revealed the nation‘s sore. With Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis announcing that universal conscription where all youths leaving school would be called to serve being potentially implemented from 2019, calculations have appeared that the number of those suitable to serve would only reach 6,000. […]
High-quality higher education should continue to be available in Lithuania’s regions, but that does not necessarily mean keeping the existing inefficient higher education institutions intact, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Thursday. […]
Lithuania should not tie itself to specific financing figures as its defence spending will depend on geopolitical challenges and available financial resources, President Dalia Grybauskaitė said on Wednesday. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis supports lawmakers’ proposal to update a defense policy agreement among political parties to include a commitment to gradually increase defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP in 2020. […]
The Lithuanians government wants to look into the details of the Rail Baltic project before signing interstate agreements on the European standard-gauge railway, Transport Minister Rokas Masiulis said. […]
Other countries view Belarus’ Astravyets nuclear power plant project through an economic lens, Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Tuesday, commenting on the Latvian foreign minister’s words that his country is not considering restricting electricity imports from the facility under construction just 50 kilometers from Vilnius. […]
Estonia plans for the prime ministers of the Baltic states to sign the deal on the European-gauge railway Rail Baltica project, however, Lithuania’s Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is not sure about the signing. […]
The fence planned on the Lithuanian border with the Russian Kaliningrad region is first of all needed to ensure Lithuania’s economic security, says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis. […]
Based on the implementation of Russian deterrence, a tank and AFV brigade from the United States has already reached Poland from where it will proceed to Lithuania. Despite Russian protests, this year a NATO battalion led by the German armed forces will be deployed in Lithuania. […]
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