Ignalina NPP
Energy

Ignalina N-plant to brief MEPs on progress of shutdown projects

Top executives of Lithuania’s decommissioned Ignalina nuclear power plant (NPP) expect to persuade members of the European Parliament (EP) on substantial progress made in the utility’s shutdown projects to ensure further funding from the European Union (EU). […]

Gintautas Paluckas
Politics

SocDems to propose candidate for president, Paluckas not to run for EP

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party will propose a candidate for the 2019 presidential elections, the party’s council decided at its meeting on Saturday. […]

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European Union

MEPs urge European Commission to help the European basketball community and evaluate the dispute between FIBA and Euroleague

Members of the five political groups of the European Parliament urge European Commission to help the European basketball community and evaluate the dispute between FIBA and Euroleague, regarding their overlapping schedules for Euroleage clubs´ sessions and FIBA´s qualification tournaments for the basketball World Cup 2018 and Tokyo Olympics, , MEP Antanas Guoga’s press office informed.. […]

TS-LKD meeting
Foreign affairs

After the European Court of Human Rights ruling – call for release of imprisoned former Prime Minister of Georgia Ivane Merabishvili

The Chairman of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) Gabrielius Landsbergis and members of the TS-LKD Andrius Kubilius (former Prime Minister of Lithuania), Algirdas Saudargas (Member of the European Parliament), Radvilė Morkūnaitė-Mikulėnienė (former Member of the European Parliament), Mantas Adomėnas, addressed today the President of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili, the Prime Minister Giorgi Kvirikashvili and Members of the Parliament of Georgia, calling for immediate release of imprisoned opposition politician Ivane Merabishvili, former Prime Minister of Georgia, a TS-LKD public press release states. […]

Rolandas Paksas
European Union

EU parlt panel asks Lithuanian prosecutor to attend hearings on MEP Paksas’ immunity

The European Parliament‘s Committee on Legal Affairs has asked Lithuanian Prosecutor General Evaldas Pašilis to attend hearings on stripping MEP Rolandas Paksas of his immunity in an influence peddling case. […]