In Lithuania, on Monday, September 28, a state visit by French President Emmanuel Macron takes place. A policy fellow from Paris evaluates that the visit during COVID-19 is demonstration of solidarity with the Baltic states on their sanctions against Belarusian officials, Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT reports.
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September282020
September262020
The top news in Lithuania last week were President Nausėda defends wife Diana over misinterpretation of her speech, the Lithuanian Genocide Centre decides to remove KGB register from its website and the Tri-Partite Council disagreed on minimum wage raise.
September242020
Although the epidemiological situation of COVID-19 is deteriorating in Lithuania – 138 new infections on Thursday, September 24, is the country's record daily increase since its first registered case in February, the Lithuanian Government, readying to hand over its duties to a new Cabinet, is now far less resolute to tackle the malady than it was with the virus outbreak in mid-March.
September192020
The top news stories in Lithuania last week were an agreement with the US on the development of the 5G mobile technology, a match-fixing investigation in football and leaving the 2020 budget unchanged.
September172020
The approaching general election in Lithuania on October 11 has been totally different from scratch: fewer political appearances and debates, fewer political billboards on the roads, less political zest and acrimonious wrangling too. The culprit? Yes, COVID-19 that has raked up all the spotlight.
September122020
The top news stories in Lithuania last week were the President's ambition to amend intelligence law, eight candidates being banned from elections and plans to build an airport for Palanga.
September102020
As Lithuania is orchestrating the efforts in denouncing the embattled authoritarian Belarusian leader, Alexander Lukashenko, and giving the opposition, nestled in Vilnius, a high-five, a good deal of workers at Klaipėda seaport, the pillar of Lithuanian economy, are through a worrisome time now. Lukashenko has threatened to divert Belarusian cargo from Klaipėda to Russia for Lithuania’s ostensible meddling with Belarusian affairs.
September072020
In western Lithuania, the search for a missing West Highland Terrier has led to volunteers finding several suspicious premises with dogs in poor conditions. Authorities have uncovered 47 dogs from possible illegal breeders of pure-bred dogs, Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT reports.
September052020
The key news in Lithuania last week were sanctions to Belarusian officials, humanitarian entry to Belarus opposition activists and official plans to contest the EU mobility legislation.
August292020
Last week, the key news stories in Lithuania were former President Valdas Adamkus receiving Poland's Kaczyński award, increase in new COVID-19 cases and the proposal of sanctions against more than 100 Belarusian officials.
August272020
Although Lithuania’s major macroeconomic indicators released in late August by Statistics Lithuania, the country’s chief statistician, imply a shaky time for the Lithuanian economy, however the silver lining is overwhelming, dwarfing a seemingly imminent second COVID-19 wave and its blow.
August262020
Lithuanian Prime Minister thanked Latvia for solidarity after Latvian Prime Minister Krišjānis Kariņš warned that Latvia would stop the trade of electric power with Belarus, if the controversial Astravyets nuclear power station is put into operation.
August252020
In Lithuanian schools, there are around 700 vacancies for teachers. Meanwhile, the proportion of teachers looking for work has increased by 40% in 2020.
August242020
On Sunday, a Belarusian military helicopter has violated the border, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry has announced.
August202020
Seemingly, all the democratic world was moved by the combustible events in Belarus, following its highly contested election on August 9. However, the efforts of support for the democratic change-seeking Belarusian opposition varied.
August112020
Belarusian presidential opposition candidate Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya is in Lithuania, as confirmed by Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius on Tuesday, 11 August.
August082020
Last week in Lithuania, Health Minister cut short his vacation, Vilnius did not send election observers to neighbouring Belarus and plans to buy a bank were unveiled.
August052020
After months of quarantine and distance learning, Lithuanian youths have produced poor results in the national maths exam taken at the end of the last school year of secondary school, with only 67.6 being able to pass the exam in 2020, LRT reports.
August012020
Last week, the top news in Lithuania were the reintroduction of mandatory facemasks, two ministers locking horns on relocation of a Syrian family and a court ruling on unconstitutionality of 2018 referendum law.
July302020
No other Lithuanian municipality has ever gotten so much bad spotlight as the Druskininkai municipality, which first is known for its beautiful serene resort town of Druskininkai in southern Lithuania near the border with Belarus. Why is the Lithuanian gem of wellness and health attracting bad publicity? Who is the mayor, Ričardas Malinauskas, a gregarious and exuberant man – and some say a visionary – nearly incessantly in the eye of law enforcement agencies?