Former first lady Adamkienė laid to rest

Alma Adamkienė, Lithuania’s former first lady, has been laid to rest in Kaunas Petrašiūnai cemetery after a funeral mass in Vilnius Cathedral Basilica.

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Seimas backs motion to start impeachment against MP Gražulis

The Seimas approved on Tuesday a motion to start impeachment proceedings against MP Petras Gražulis, which now moves to the Constitutional Court.

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US ambassador urges Lithuania to pass law on civil union

Attempts to pass the law on civil union have stalled in parliament, but United States Ambassador to Lithuania Robert S. Gilchrist says US President Joe Biden would welcome the adoption of the law as the issue is important for his administration.

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Estonian Foreign Minister: let’s not allow Putin and his accessories to hide behind immunity

Estonia’s Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna attended the Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on 22 May, with the focus on continued support to Ukraine and the need for a special tribunal, said the MFA.

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Nausėda to run for second term ‘if wider choice is needed’

President Gitanas Nausėda hints he may participate in presidential elections next year if “a wider choice” of candidates was needed.

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Finance minister to return nearly EUR 14,000 to Kaunas city municipality

Finance Minister Gintarė Skaistė says she has decided to transfer nearly EUR 14,000 to the Kaunas city municipality after finding out that she could not justify some of her expenses as Kaunas city councillor.

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Formin says six-month delay to adopt EU sanctions on Belarus 'unacceptable'

Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis calls on his counterparts at the European Union’s (EU) Foreign Affairs Council to consider the Belarus sanctions package separately from the exception for Belarusian potash, which has prevented the EU from approving the Belarus targeted sanctions for half a year.

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Conservative leader supports PM’s decision to resign if Seimas votes against snap election

Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis, leader of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrat party (TS-LKD), supports Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė who vows to resign if parliament fails to declare a snap election. The TS-LKD presidium recommended to its party to initiate early parliamentary elections amid the expenses scandal involving numerous municipal councils including three ministers who used to serve as municipal councillors before joining the Cabinet in 2020.

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During reconstruction at Estonian base in 2024 allied air policing will move temporarily to Latvia

The Ämari Air Base in Estonia will undergo reconstruction in 2024, during which the Baltic airspace will be secured from Latvia and Lithuania. After the reconstruction is completed, the allied fighter jets will return to Estonia, reports the Ministry of Defence of Estonia.

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Landsbergis to attend EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting

On Monday, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis will participate in the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels.

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Estonian government approves its four-year work plan

The Estonian government announces it has approved its action programme for 2023–2027, which sets out the activities, responsibilities, and terms for implementing the objectives of the coalition agreement between the Estonian Reform Party, Estonia 200, and the Estonian Social Democratic Party.

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Conservative party presidium to discuss Cabinet’s fate amidst expenses scandal

Conservative leader Gabrielius Landsbergis says his party’s presidium is set to convene later Friday to consider Government’s resignation and early parliamentary elections in response to the ongoing expenses scandal involving several Cabinet members.

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Parlt speaker says call for weighing up Cabinet’s resignation rational

The Conservative leader’s invitation to coalition partners to discuss the Cabinet’s future and possibility of early elections is a rational one, Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen says.

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Formin says Lithuania’s experience with China will be on G7 summit agenda

Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis says that the upcoming G7 summit is set to discuss economic pressure among other topics, including Lithuania’s example with China.

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Minister of Education submits her resignation letter to Prime Minister

Minister of Education, Science and Sport Jurgita Šiugždinienė has submitted her resignation letter to Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė. The Office of the Government has confirmed this information.

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Opposition leaders criticise Government’s report for contradictions and propaganda

The Government’s annual activity report is full of contradictions, illustrating the Cabinet’s approach that has determined ‘a record economic downturn’, the opposition Social Democrats say as the prime minister is about to present the report to MPs on Thursday afternoon.

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Matijošaitis family’s company illegally seized state land

UAB Kauno saulėtekis, a company owned by the Kaunas city mayor’s family, took over 1.5 thousand square metres of state land unlawfully when building a shopping centre, and set up a parking lot there, the news website Delfi reports.

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Latvian Foreign Minister says democracy, human rights the bedrock of freedom and peace in Europe

Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs took part in the official handover ceremony for the Presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe in Reykjavík, the capital city of Iceland, on Wednesday, the ministry reports.

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Estonian Prime Minister pleads with local companies to stop trade with Russia

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas told UK newspaper the Financial Times that she had to “plead” with companies to find a “moral compass” and decline deals that may result in Moscow accessing sanctioned goods, the ERR public broadcaster reports.

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Russian diplomat summoned in protest against removal of monuments in Irkutsk

On Tuesday, the Russian Federation’s chargé d’affaires ad interim Alexander Elkin was summoned to the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry in protest over the removal of monuments to Lithuanian and Polish deportees and political prisoners in the Irkutsk Oblast, southeast Siberia, the ministry announces.

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