Defence
Lithuanian State Defence Council to discuss priority defence needs
The Lithuanian State Defence Council will discuss the country’s priority defence needs at its meeting on Tuesday, the president’s press office said. […]
Ukraine
Foreign affairs
Seimas speaker, Polish Senate chair discuss resumption of assembly’s work
Lithuania’s Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis met with visiting Polish Senate Chairman Stanislaw Karczewski in Vilnius on Friday and discussed the possibility of resuming operations of the bilateral parliamentary assembly. […]
Foreign affairs
Defence
Lithuanian, Polish, US experts to visit Suwalki gap
Lithuanian, Polish and US security and defence officials and experts will visit on Tuesday the so-called “Suwalki gap” to discuss the defence of the land corridor. […]
Foreign affairs
Ukraine inquires about standards for MPs in Bastys’ case – Constitutional Court president
Ukraine and other countries in Eastern Europe inquire about the standards in connection to MP liability formed by the Lithuanian Constitutional Court in the case of Mindaugas Bastys, says the court’s president Dainius Žalimas. […]
Foreign affairs
3 parliamentary speakers in Vilnius see Nord Stream 2 as Russia’s political instrument
The Nord Stream gas pipeline projected on the bottom of the Baltic Sea is an instrument of Russia‘s state policies, which will make Europe more dependent on Russia, say parliamentary speakers of Lithuania, Latvia and Poland. […]
Foreign affairs
Foreign affairs
Crimean Tatars call for non-recognition of Russian elections, FIFA World Cup boycott
Leaders of the Crimean Tatar parliament on Monday called on the West not to recognize Russia’s upcoming presidential elections and to boycott this summer’s FIFA World Cup in Russia. […]
Foreign affairs
Baltic ministers, in US, voice concern over possible trade wars
The Baltic foreign ministers voiced their concern over possible trade wars during their joint meeting with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Monday. […]
Defence
Lithuania’s minister of defence again subjected to fake news
Fake news about Lithuania’s Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis allegedly recognizing Crimea as part of Russia has been published online in the Russian, Ukrainian and English languages. […]
Foreign affairs
Highlights of Lithuanian Seimas speaker’s speech at Polish parliament
Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas, on Thursday delivered a speech at the Polish parliament. […]
Foreign affairs
Politics
Government to discuss Migration Department overhaul in mid-May
Lithuanian Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas thinks that the Migration Department should be a separate agency, but he will in mid-March present the government with several alternative options for overhauling the existing system. […]
CORPORATE
Rasa Juknevičienė. We had better learn to live without Russia
Over and over again, we keep hearing the same imperative on Lithuania’s relations with Russia. Over and over again we are beckoned to remain friends and blamed for the lack of friendship. In fact, the […]
Culture
Insights into love in the face of conflict and war
Aušra Mažonė’s ‘s first book The Unknown Frontline – 12 true stories of soldier’s wives collected around the globe, (in Lithuanian ”Nežinios fronto linijos -12 tikrų istorijų apie karių moteris iš viso pasaulio”) was launched last weekend at the Vilnius book fair. […]
Politics
President urges interior minister stop laying blame, focus on immigration challenges
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Thursday called on Interior Minister Eimutis Misiūnas to be more active in addressing the challenges of growing immigration and pay less attention to finding someone to blame or replacing officials. […]
Foreign affairs
CORPORATE
Lithuania: a State in Europe or a Federal State of Europe?
The future of the EU, an issue increasingly raised over the recent years, seems to generate fatigue. In fact, in Lithuania, in contrast to the rest of the EU, the debate on the matter is […]
Politics
Lithuania’s government ready to take over defence agreement – PM
The government is ready to take the coordinating role and coordinate the positions of political parties on defence matters to facilitate signing of a long-term document on the country’s defence strategy, says Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis. […]
CORPORATE
Political scientists: the topic of Russian relations is the beginning of Skvernelis’ campaign
Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has not announced his participation in the presidential elections, however his statement that Lithuania should renew relations with Russia leads, according to political scientists, to the conclusion that it is the […]