A concerned reader has reported to the Lithuanian news portal DELFI that he was approached by a man who offered him money in exchange for votes for Russia in the Eurovision final. Allegedly the man was approached by two Russian speaking men when sitting with …
US Ambassador to Lithuania Deborah McCarthy delivered a speech ‘the Transatlantic Partnership and U.S. Expectations for Lithuania‘s EU Presidency’ at the Institute for International Relations and Political Science in Vilnius on May 7, 2013. Read the speech below. Good afternoon and thank you for the …
BNS – A rally was held in Vilnius on Sunday afternoon to protest against demands by the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (EAPL), a member of the ruling coalition, to allow bilingual spelling of location names and non-Lithuanian letters in personal names in documents, …
BNS – Ireland’s budget airline Ryanair has invited Lithuanian Transport Minister Rimantas Sinkevicius to meet to discuss the carrier’s proposals. “I have today written to the minister inviting him to meet so that we can convey our proposals directly to him,” Ryanair Deputy CEO Michael …
The Swedish newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported today that a Russian spy plane flew close by the Swedish territory on 20 April, 2013. This report comes after the newspaper wrote on 22 April, 2013 that Russian fighters had made dummy attacks close to Swedish territory during …
President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with the Lord Mayor of London, Roger Gifford, who is visiting Lithuania. The conversation focused on Lithuania’s preparations for the presidency of the Council of the European Union and the investment climate in the country, Presidential palace press office reported. According …
BNS Lithuania’s President Dalia Grybauskaite and Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius remain the most popular politicians in the country, a fresh survey published in the Lietuvos Rytas daily on Saturday shows. According to the poll carried out by public opinion and market research company Vilmorus on …
BNS The ruling Social Democratic Party of Lithuania remains the most popular party in Lithuania and their popularity rating increased even further in a month, a survey shows. According to the survey by public opinion and market research company Vilmorus for the Lietuvos Rytas daily, …
BNS Trust in the majority of institutions in Lithuania was down a bit in a month, a recent survey showed. According to the results of the survey carried out on Apr. 10-14 by public opinion and market research company Vilmorus for the Lietuvos Rytas daily, …
BNS Lithuania’s Prime Minister discussed energy security with his Swedish counterpart, Fredrik Reinfeldt, in Stockholm on Friday. “I have to say that first we had a tete-a-tete meeting, which was followed by a lunch. We discussed energy security, financial and economic situation in Sweden, Lithuania …
BNS The executives of Scandinavia’s financial groups SEB and Swedbank support Lithuania’s ambition to join the euro zone, Prime Minister has said. “The executives of both banks approve of this course since they believe that Lithuania actually does not have any other choice – due …
Maryna Khorunzha, Worldwide News Ukraine| The Lithuania Tribune As the fresh Eurostat data was revealed, the world gasped at the gender pay gap persisting in the European Union. Women in Europe Work 59 Days “For Free”, – one can learn from the brochure, published by …
BNS A military airplane of Belarus violated the air-space of Lithuania, a diplomatic note was handed to Belarus over the matter on Thursday, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry confirmed to BNS on Thursday. According to the press release, a military airplane MiG-29 violated the Lithuanian air-space by entering …
BNS Bankruptcy of Ukio Bankas may become an obstacle on Lithuania’s way towards euro adoption in 2015, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius has said adding that, in his view, the odds of the country joining the euro zone in a couple of years are fifty-fifty. “I …
BNS Official Vilnius has dismissed as untrue Moscow’s reports that consultations on the European Union’s (EU) Third Energy Package, which does not sit well with Russia’s gas giant Gazprom, will be held at the senior officials’ level in Vilnius on Apr. 25. “The report does …
BNS Sweden’s government on Thursday gave its final approval to the construction of a power cable, known as NordBalt, to Lithuania, reads the government’s website. “We confirm receipt of a decision made by the Swedish government today on its final approval to the NordBalt project,” …
BNS Lithuania’s Justice Minister Juozas Bernatonis said that draft changes on the spelling of non-Lithuanian names should be prepared and submitted to the government by May. “I have set up a task force, which is making the draft, and I hope to have it ready …
BNS Lithuanian actor and television host Vytautas Sapranauskas was found dead in his Vilnius home, the police and TV3 television confirmed on Thursday. Spokeswoman for the Vilnius police said police investigators are working at the scene. TV3 said the actor’s death was a tremendous loss …
The EU is doing nothing for changes in Belarus, the Lithuanian MP Egidijus Vareikis believes, charter97.org reported. At the background of the recent statements by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania about the necessity to release political prisoners in Belarus a press-conference of Uladzimir Drazhyn and …
BNS Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius, who met his Belarusian counterpart Mikhail Myasnikovich in the Lithuanian port of Klaipeda on Wednesday, expects a thaw in Minsk’s relations with the European Union and says that the Lithuanian EU Presidency in the second half of this year …
