Lithuania and other European countries will not be able to reach as low prices of shale gas as the United States, Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for Climate Action, has said …
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President Dalia Grybauskaitė has left for Brussels to attend a European Council meeting, the Press Service of the President has informed. At their meeting, EU heads of state and government will discuss how to reduce prices for energy resources and to fight tax fraud and …
BNS Lithuania’s Prosecutor General’s Office has dropped suspicions of document forgery and jobbery against former deputy director of the country’s Financial Crime Investigation Service, Vytautas Girzadas. The investigations itself, however, will be continued to identify those who could leak the information, the Office told BNS …
Lucia (Genys) Hassett | The Lithuania Tribune Before I start recalling my memories of growing up in Horton Street (a.k.a. “Litho” Street), I want to reflect on the words I have used in my title: “We will all meet up in heaven and dance”. This …
BNS Lithuania’s government on Wednesday distributed 1.687 million litas (EUR 489,000) among religious communities for rebuilding or restoration of houses of prayers and other needs. The bulk of the sum – 1.49 million litas – will go to the Lithuanian Conference of Bishops. The Archdiocese …
BNS Belarusian Ambassador to Lithuania, Vladimir Drazhin, has refused to specify the official representative Minsk would want to see at the European Union’s (EU) Eastern Partnership summit in Vilnius in the end of November. “We haven’t received any invitations yet. (…) I do not want …
State Nuclear Power Safety Inspectorate (VATESI) has issued a license to the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) to operate with very low-level radioactive waste repository, the Baltic Course informed with reference to ELTA. Once an industrial storage operation starts, nuclear fuel cycle materials that are …
Lithuania does not meet standards for running state-owned companies set by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which Lithuania plans to join, Bloomberg reported referring to the Baltic Institute of Corporate Governance (BICG), writes the Baltic Course. Undue political influence on business decisions …
On 21 May, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevičius met with the President of the State of Israel Shimon Peres and the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed. Lithuanian diplomat is said to have discussed bilateral cooperation, …
BNS Withdrawal of equipment from Afghanistan’s Ghor province administered by Lithuania has been started, the Lithuanian Defence Ministry said. First of all, the gear will be transported to the NATO operation’s intermediate logistics points in Afghanistan before proceeding to Lithuania. On Tuesday, the first planned …
BNS Lithuania’s Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said Tuesday he had instructed the government’s chancellor to turn to the Chief Official Ethics Commission over Economy Minister Birute Vėsaitė’s charter flight to Kazakhstan. “Every leader, a minister or not a minister, should think about taking a private …
BNS Access to university education in Lithuania is low, say analysts of the Research and Higher Education Monitoring and Analysis Centre in their first education and study reviews. “The access to higher education is low, the chances of accessing a university and successfully completing it …
According to Vilnius Tourist Information Centre & Convention Bureau, the best way for Vilnius’ guests to discover and get acquainted with the capital of Lithuania is to join the new tour ‘Discover Vilnius Old Town’. Vilnius Tourist Information Centre & Convention Bureau is offering walking …
BNS European Commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard says that the main challenge during Lithuania’s upcoming European Union (EU) Council presidency will be the negotiations on the prices of emission permits. “To get the pricing right in the emissions trading schemes – that will be …
According to the data of 2011 Population and Housing Census, citizens of 108 countries lived in Lithuania, the Baltic Course reported, referring to the news agency ELTA and Statistics Lithuania. Among the residents registered, 99 per cent had the nationality of the Republic of Lithuania, …
BNS Lithuanian Economy Minister Birutė Vėsaitė, accompanied by a delegation, flew to a business forum in Kazakhstan on a charter eight-seat business-class airplane paid for by Arvi company. The other part of the official delegation, which included 30 ministerial officials and business figures, flew to …
