Minister of Foreign Affairs and Conservative party’s (TS-LKD) leader Gabrielius Landsbergis is yet to decide if he is going to stand as a candidate in presidential elections.
September262023
September262023
Around half of Lithuanians say that their trust in local government has decreased after the so-called receipts scandal, a survey conducted by Baltijos tyrimai for the public broadcaster shows.
September262023
Files of 12 incumbent MPs were discovered among the documents of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Lithuanian archives, a journalistic investigation by news website 15min.lt has revealed.
September252023
Latvia’s Defence Ministry has begun an investigation into the loss of contact with a drone on the Latvian-Russian border, reports dpa news agency.
September252023
Speaker of the Seimas of Lithuania Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen denies rumours that this week parliament may vote on the much-debated civil union bill.
September252023
Estonian President Alar Karis has called on the United Nations to make a global environmental initiative which was born in Estonia 15 years ago an official international day, the ERR public broadcaster reports.
September252023
Owners of vehicles bearing Russian license plates must either remove their vehicles from Estonia or re-register them here, within a six-month period. No new legislation has been put in place to accomplish this; Minister of Justice Kalle Laanet (Reform) simply recapped current Estonian law, reports Estonia’s public broadcaster ERR.
September252023
Conservative MP Justas Džiugelis will participate in 2024 European elections.
September252023
Mantas Varaška, mayor of Kazlų Rūda, a town in central Lithuania, has announced that he will stand as a candidate in 2024 presidential elections and the Lithuanian Regions Party said it would endorse his candidature.
September222023
Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen says Poland’s recent statement on arms deliveries to Ukraine is paving way for a win for Russia only, but she expected Kyiv and Warsaw will eventually resolve the dispute over Ukrainian grain exports.
September222023
President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda calls on Ukraine and Poland to resolve disagreements as soon as possible. The Polish government has declared that it would stop arms deliveries to Ukraine amid a row over Ukrainian grain exports.
September222023
MEP Viktor Uspaskikh, founder of the Labour Party and its former leader, has announced that he will not participate in 2024 elections to the European Parliament.
September212023
The Seimas approved on Thursday a package of amendments to the police law proposed by the Ministry of the Interior to integrate the Public Security Service (VST) into the Police Department.
September212023
The Seimas on Thursday passed the bill on banning fur farms into law. In the final vote, 68 MPs supported the bill, 25 were against it and 15 abstained.
September212023
On Wednesday, President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda said in his speech at the 78th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York that working for sustainable peace in Ukraine the international community should ensure the accountability of those responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
September212023
The Ministry of Education, Science and Sport has not received any reports about alleged pressure put on teachers before their warning strike action last Friday, the minister says.
September212023
On Thursday, the US rotational battalions will change over during a ceremony at General Silvestras Žukauskas Training Area at Pabradė, the National Defence Ministry reports.
September212023
Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis met on Wednesday with the under-secretary-general for political affairs of the United Nations, Rosemary A. DiCarlo, to discuss the role of the UN in pursuing Russia’s accountability for aggression against Ukraine, the ministry said in a press release.
September202023
A green energy company Ignitis Renewables is expanding its management team. Anu Eslas, an executive with international experience, will oversee international business development at the company. The offshore development specialist started working at Ignitis Renewables on 19 September, the company said in a press release.
September202023
The Cabinet of Ministers on Wednesday gave the green light for the plan to implement the civil resistance strategy drafted by the National Defence Ministry.