Lithuania is the member state of the European Union, NATO, UN, WTO, other international organisations. OECD, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, also known as ‘club of the rich’, is the most recent international…
By Angele Kedaitiene On Thursday (4 July), the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg has cleared Lithuania in Russian TV restriction case, ruling that Lithuania did not breach EU law when it introduced restrictions on…
At the 30 June-2 July EU Council meeting the name of the outgoing Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite was barely mentioned for the post of the President of EU Council, but it did not get through….
By Angele Kedaitiene The Lithuanian government on 19 June decided to join the EU goal to achieve a climate-neutral economy by 2050, although such ambition could be a challenge for the country’s economy. Economy Minister…
Jens Stoltenberg, Wikipedia By Angele Kedaitiene Last Friday (14 June), the newly elected President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda spoke by phone to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and expressed Lithuania’s willingness to host more of NATO…
By Angele Kedaitiene The race for EU top jobs is heating up. In this context, EUnewsLithuania, asked former MEP Margarita Starkeviciute (ALDE, Lithuania), who has served in the period 2004-2009, her opinion about Manfred Weber,…
By Angele Kedaitiene Lithuania along with neighbouring Poland were the EU countries which have faced the European Court of Human Rights for so-called secret CIA prisons for interrogation of the suspected terrorists, following the al-Qaeda…
By Angele Kedaitiene EU Competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager has visited Lithuania this week, where she met with Lithuanian Competition Council, participated to the Login conference of innovations and technology and to other events. In relation…
By Angele Kedaitiene The Central Electoral Commission has confirmed last Friday the results of the Presidential elections which took place a week ago on 26 of May. Gitanas Nauseda has been recognized the newly…
By Angele Kedaitiene One of the newly elected MEPs from Lithuaniua, Sarunas Marciulionis, gave up the mandate, on the next day after the elections. Famous former basketball player Marciulionis was elected to the European Parliament…
