The European Commission has again asked the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to suspend for a year the case against China over trade restrictions Beijing had imposed on Lithuania, public broadcaster LRT reports.
President Gitanas Nausėda, together with the leaders of Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg, Latvia, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, and Sweden addressed António Costa, the president of the European Council, N...
President Gitanas Nausėda warns that MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis, leader of the Nemunas Dawn party, may discredit Lithuania by his statements, which would call for changes in the ruling coalition.
Luminor bank has successfully distributed €11.2 million worth of Tewox bonds to investors, completing the company’s €35 million bond issue program ahead of schedule. In the third tranche of the offering, the original target was to raise €6 million, but investor demand totalled nearly €15 million. Du...
Lithuania’s unemployment rate fell to 6.5% in December 2024 from the month before (6.9%), reports Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union (EU).
Minister of Social Security and Labour Inga Ruginienė proposes reforming the accumulation of funds in the second pillar pension scheme, giving some people the flexibility to take out all or part of their accumulated funds. The minister also says automatic enrolment in the pension scheme should be sc...
Parliament Speaker Saulius Skvernelis, leader of the party Democrats For Lithuania, accuses MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis, leader of the Nemunas Dawn party, of spreading disinformation. He would like the coalition council to address Žemaitaitis’ controversial remarks about Lithuania’s security and Ukrain...
Head of Via Lietuva, the Lithuanian road administration company, notes that EUR 1 billion annual funding for road maintenance is insufficient as it would cost EUR 5.4 billion to repair all roads that are in poor condition and EUR 300 million to repair bridges.
The natural population change remained negative in Lithuania in 2024 as the number of deaths exceeded the number of births by 18,800.
Border guards have discovered a 25-metre-long tunnel in Šalčininkai district, southern Lithuania, which was potentially used for smuggling, public broadcaster LRT reported.
The Bank of Lithuania has published the monetary financial institution (MFI) balance sheet and interest rate data for December 2024, which show that overnight deposits of Lithuanian households held with credit institutions rose by 6.8% and deposits with agreed maturity went up by 1.6%, the central b...
President’s chief adviser Frederikas Jansonas has likened MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis, leader of the Nemunas Dawn party, to a Russian propagandist as he claimed at a recent meeting with supporters that President Gitanas Nausėda was preparing to "nationalise" people’s deposits to fund defence.
Lithuanian officials have expressed condolences over the plane crash that happened on Wednesday in the United States’ capital.
Lithuania should apply much tougher sentences in cases of spying for another country, says the intelligence head.
Parliament Speaker Saulius Skvernelis believes that Lithuania and China should restore diplomatic ties and both countries should be represented by ambassadors rather than by chargés d’affaires.
Increasingly more Belarusians choose to live and work in Lithuania. Data of the Employment Service show that since 2022 the number of Belarusian citizens who work in Lithuania has increased by 33,600 or nearly four times.
Repair work on the damaged sea cable will start as soon as the vessel needed for the work is available, representatives of the Latvian State Radio and Television Centre (LVRTC) informed LETA.
Director of the State Security Department (VSD) Darius Jauniškis warns that Lithuania must prepare for a long-lasting confrontation and a potential conflict if Russia’s full-scale invasion in Ukraine ends in peace talks and the Kremlin has time to restore its military capability.
On Wednesday in Vilnius, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Kęstutis Budrys met with his Greek counterpart Giorgos Gerapetritis. The head of Lithuania’s diplomacy called on the European Union to impose tougher sanctions on Russia.
Investigators have identified the most likely cause of the accident involving Swiftair flight in Vilnius that happened last November, news website 15min.lt reported.
Responding to Moldova’s request for international assistance, the Lithuanian Government on Wednesday approved the provision of assistance to the country, which is facing major challenges in the energy sector, with Russia using energy blackmail to destabilise the country, the Government announced.
Let us admit – Donald Trump is unrivalled as political survivor and trickster. There is only one world leader about whom Baltic opinions have any relevance – Vladimir Putin. Our anticipation about our tyrant neighbor was proved most adequate. When it comes to Donald Trump, Baltic distant and calm ob...
A new Ministry of Regions should start work from July 2026, Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas says.
By 2030 Lithuania plans to fully establish the First Armed Forces Division, which will be led by Brigade General Aurelijus Alasauskas.
The audit results information website ARIS, developed by the National Audit Office, is launched. It is intended for institutions implementing recommendations from public audits. The website will allow institutions to independently record the work carried out and the changes achieved at their conveni...
On Sunday, yet another subsea cable was damaged in the Baltic Sea and head of Lithuania’s State Security Department (VSD) says the incidents may be linked to the upcoming synchronisation of the electricity system of the Baltic States with Western Europe.
SEB bank has not changed its gross domestic product (GDP) growth projections for Lithuania. It forecasts Lithuania’s GDP to grow by 2.8% in 2025, the same as in the forecast published in November 2024.
On 27 January 2025, the Committee on Foreign Affairs adopted a Statement reiterating its non-recognition of the election of Lukashenko as President of Belarus and describing the sham elections held by the Belarusian regime on 26 January 2025 as a "presidential election spectacle", stated the press s...
After a subsea fibre optic cable connecting Sweden and Latvia was cut in the Baltic Sea last Sunday, one in a series of similar incidents recently, President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda stated that the culprits must compensate for the damage.
On Tuesday, 28 January, an outbreak of bird flu was confirmed in a poultry farm of the company UAB Vilkyčių paukštynas, in Šilutė district, western Lithuania. Public broadcaster LRT reported that 30,000 birds have died.
Deputy Finance Minister Valentinas Gavrilovas has announced his resignation amid growing doubts over his loyalty to Lithuania due to pro-Russian posts on social media.
A subsea optical cable of the Latvian State Radio and Television Centre (LVRTC) was damaged in the Baltic Sea on Sunday. Swedish authorities have stopped the ship Vezhen, registered in Malta, on suspicion that it might have damaged the cable. Lithuanian ministers of foreign affairs and defence have ...
Early on 26 January, the submarine optical fibre cable in the Baltic Sea belonging to SJSC Latvia State Radio and Television Centre (LVRTC) was damaged. LVRTC’s Data Transmission Monitoring System detected disruptions in data transmission services on the Ventspils–Gotland (Fårösund) segment. LVRTC c...
Swedbank’s chief economist Nerijus Mačiulis believes that in current circumstances, when defence funding needs to be raised rapidly, this should be done by borrowing rather than by using foreign exchange reserves or the State Social Insurance Fund Board’s (Sodra) reserves.
On Sunday afternoon, Belarusian citizens residing in Lithuania held a rally in Vilnius over the unfair Belarusian presidential election in which Alexander Lukashenko was declared the winner.
CEO of Rheinmetall AG, Armin Papperger, will visit Lithuania on Wednesday, 29 January. Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas is planned to meet with the head of the German arms manufacturer that will build a munitions factory in Lithuania.
The victims of the Nazi genocide during World War II are honoured on 27 January, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in Lithuania and around the world, commemorating the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp 80 years ago.
President Gitanas Nausėda has called for seeking justice in everyday actions to honour the memory of Holocaust victims as the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Monday.
The European Commission last week opened two infringement cases against Lithuania over environmental breaches that could end up in fines reaching millions, Delfi news website reports.
A march took place in Vilnius on Monday to commemorate the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Ambassadors attending the event stressed the importance of remembering this dark page of European history.