BNS Lithuania’s government will on Thursday discuss a proposal to set up a cyber-security task force for Lithuania’s EU Council presidency. The task group would be in charge of the …
BNS Lithuania’s government will on Thursday discuss a proposal to set up a cyber-security task force for Lithuania’s EU Council presidency. The task group would be in charge of the …
BNS The Constitutional Commission of the Lithuanian Seimas suggests banning Rolandas Paksas, the country’s former president removed from office through impeachment, to run for parliament for eight years. The period …
BNS An ad hoc commission of the Lithuanian Seimas, which looked into actions of agents of the country’s Special Investigation Service (SIS), aimed at allegedly provoke members of the Social …
On his official visit to Turkmenistan, Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičiaus met with President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, the Government’s Press Service has informed. They pointed out the particularly rapid development of the bilateral economic trade relations in the recent years, and the need to make a more …
BNS Speaker of the Lithuanian Seimas, Vydas Gedvilas, representing the ruling Labour Party, says he sees no basis for an interpellation against Social Democratic Minister of Health Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis. “I believe there’s no basis for an interpellation against the minister,” Gedvilas told in an …
Serge Kharytonau | The Lithuania Tribune In late May 2013 Vladimir Putin firmly approved reinforcement of cultural and socio-economic expansion against former Soviet republics with the enlargement of the Federal Agency for the CIS, Compatriots Living Abroad and International Humanitarian Cooperation (most commonly known as …
President Dalia Grybauskaitė, having returned to the top of the list of the most favoured public figures, has been improving her position even further, writes www.delfi.lt. In May, 75 per cent of the participants of a public survey rated the head of state favourably. The …
The Lithuania Tribune presents an article by Jonas Ohman, director, journalist and translator, on the emerging clash between the old and young generations of Lithuanian politicians, as published by www.delfi.lt. I am trying to understand what the noisy conflict between the ruling party and business …
BNS Lithuania has dropped in the Freedom House’ democracy index due to violations during the Seimas elections last year. Yet, in terms of general evaluation, the country remains among the most democratic countries that went through changes in their political systems. “Lithuania continues to score …
The Lithuanian State Security Department (SSD), which made public the information about possible activities of Russian intelligence services against Lithuania in its latest report, knew about Moscow’s doings before; however, the information had been hidden from the public, claims the former head of the SSD …
BNS The Seimas of Lithuania on Tuesday ratified the Stabilisation and Association Agreement between the European Union and Serbia, with 73 votes in favour and four abstentions. Lithuania was the only EU member states to have not ratified the agreement which is important for Serbia’s …
The Seimas has adopted amendments to the Law on Trade Unions and the Civil Code that will allow both citizens of the Republic of Lithuania and foreign nationals having professional and legal capacity to form trade unions and join them, the Seimas Press Service has …
BNS Lithuanian Minister of Health Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, member of the Social Democratic party, plans to provide answers to questions in an interpellation initiated by the opposition against him on Thursday. On Tuesday, the minister met with the biggest opposition Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats’ political …
Last week the State Security Department claimed that Russian and Belarusian services are attempting to acquire secret information regarding Lithuanian domestic and foreign affairs. The chairman of the Seimas’ National Security and Defence Committee, Arūras Paulauskas, stated that every person in Lithuania may be spied …
The chairman of the Seimas’ National Defence and Security Committee (NDSC) Artūras Paulauskas admitted that Russian intelligence could be listening to the phone calls of Lithuanian citizens, and there are no opportunities to prevent it since the interception devices are not in Lithuania, writes www.delfi.lt. …
The Lithuania Tribune presents an article by the EUobserver’s reporter Valentina Pop about the main tasks that Lithuania intends to tackle during its upcoming presidency over the European Council. Lithuania, a country of three million people bordering Poland, Latvia, Belarus and the Russian enclave of …
BNS Former Lithuanian President Rolandas Paksas, removed from office through impeachment, will have a seat reserved in the presidential box of the Seimas’ March 11 Hall during a solemn parliamentary sitting on 4 July for the occasion of the start of the Lithuanian EU presidency, …
The European Humanities University (EHU) has been presented with the Atlantic Council’s Freedom Award at an awards ceremony took place at the Wroclaw Global Forum in Wroclaw, Poland on 14 June, 2013, the Communication Manager of the EHU has informed. Founded in Minsk, Belarus, in …
The Lithuania Tribune presents an opinion editorial of Valentinas Mitė, a journalist at Radio Free Europe, on the last week’s report issued by the SSD on the scale of espionage activities within Lithuania, as published on www.delfi.lt. The Lithuanian State Security Department (SSD) states in …
BNS A group of Lithuanian MPs addressed the EU institutions, asking for an evaluation of whether certain bills that are being considered in the Seimas did not violate human and sexual minority rights. The bills include proposals to ban “violation of constitutional moral values” and …
