On Tuesday, the Lithuanian Parliament will decide whether to hold a snap election amid the municipal expenses scandal. However, views of political parties diverge on the issue.
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International media has reported that in the early hours of Tuesday water started spilling from the Nova Kakhovka dam on the Dnipro River in southern Ukraine. Ukraine’s military said Russian forces blew up the dam. Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis reacted to the news by reiterating that Russia has to be stopped.
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Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė is sending a message of greetings, on behalf of the Government and the people of Lithuania, to Sweden celebrating its National Day, said the prime minister’s press service.
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The Ministry of Finance said on Monday that Lithuania is to set up a Green Finance Institute for the smooth transition to a green economy, efficient use of renewable energy resources and to become a regional leader in the field of green finance.
June052023
On Friday, President Gitanas Nausėda met with the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, Ruslan Stefanchuk. The meeting discussed the upcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius, Ukraine’s aspirations for EU membership, Ukraine’s reconstruction and Russia’s accountability, the presidency reports.
June032023
In order to improve communication between Lithuania and Poland in a coordinated manner, Lithuanian Deputy Minister of Transport and Communications Julius Skačkauskas and Polish Deputy Minister of Infrastructure Rafal Weber discussed in Marijampolė the modernisation of Via Baltica highway and improvement of the border road infrastructure in the presence of representatives of the border municipalities of both countries.
June022023
Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis told French newspaper Le Figaro in an interview published on 1 June that Ukraine must fully defeat Russia so that the latter would not be able to launch another invasion.
June022023
On Friday, 2 June, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė participated in the High Level Meeting of Speakers of Parliaments of NATO Member Countries in Vilnius.
June022023
Leader of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party (LSDP) MEP Vilija Blinkevičiūtė believes that the coalition should solve the political crisis together with President Gitanas Nausėda. She says Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė should listen to the president’s call to replace several ministers and continue working with the current Government.
June022023
Russia’s imperial ambitions pose an existential threat not only to Ukraine, but also to Europe as a whole, and political, economic and military assistance to Ukrainians is the only direct way to address the continent’s security problems, President Gitanas Nausėda stressed in his address to the leaders of the 47 European countries in Chișinău on Thursday.
June022023
On Wednesday, President Gitanas Nausėda congratulated by phone the newly elected president of Latvia, Edgars Rinkēvičs, said the presidency.
June012023
The Ministry of the Interior has announced that 957 children in Lithuania were victims of various sex crimes in the last three years. 48% of sex crimes consisted of possession of pornographic content showing children.
June012023
In the run-up to the NATO Summit in Vilnius on 11–12 July, the High Level Meeting of Speakers of Parliaments of NATO Member Countries will take place in the Plenary Chamber of the Seimas of Lithuania on Friday, 2 June, the Seimas has announced.
June012023
On Thursday, parliament voted in favour of launching the impeachment procedure of MP Petras Gražulis and decided to address the Constitutional Court, which would ascertain if the MP breached the Constitution and violated his oath.
June012023
On Thursday, on the occasion of the International Day for Protection of Children, a rally was held in Boris Nemtsov Square in Vilnius, in front of the Embassy of Russia in Lithuania. People protested against the killing and kidnapping of Ukrainian children by Russian invaders.
June012023
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis reiterates his call for European sanctions against Rosatom, the Russian state atomic energy corporation.
June012023
National defence education is set to become compulsory in Estonian upper secondary schools from this autumn. Defence education will be introduced to the curriculum in 40 Estonian schools for the first time, while in others it has already been offered as an optional subject, public broadcaster ERR reports.
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The Seimas security committee chair appealed on Tuesday to the prosecutor general asking to prosecute Russian propagandists Vladimir Solovyov and Anton Krasovsky for war crimes and crimes against humanity under universal jurisdiction.
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Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen says she has doubts whether the parliamentary parties will be able to sign an agreement on foreign policy in the spring session of the Seimas.
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President Gitanas Nausėda believes that the political crisis in Lithuania, which was caused by the municipal expenses scandal, may be solved either by a snap election or a Cabinet reshuffle.