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Lithuania’s foreign minister says the European Commission and the Council of Europe are close to deciding on the allocation of profits generated by frozen Russian assets to Ukraine, as “merely technical solutions” need to be found.

The Government has approved the candidature of Andrius Krivas as Lithuania’s ambassador to the Council of Europe.

Lithuanian producer Uljana Kim was awarded the Eurimages Co-production Award at the European Film Awards ceremony in Germany on Saturday, the Ministry of Culture has said.

Latvia ratified the Istanbul Convention in November 2023, while Estonia did so in 2017, leaving Lithuania the last of the Baltic countries to approve the document adopted by the Council of Europe in 2011. Parliament Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen says the Seimas will resume deliberations on the i...

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.

Menų agentūra „Artscape“ tapo šių metų Europos Tarybos vystymo banko (The Council of Europe Development Bank, CEB) įsteigtų apdovanojimų už socialinę sanglaudą nugalėtoja, išrinkta iš 64 nominantų.

U.S. and other major tech platforms that treat their own services more favorably, at the expense of rivals, could be forced to sell businesses and pay billion-dollar fines under strict rules unveiled by the European Union.

Six Lithuanian institutions signed on Thursday a renewed agreement to cooperate in combating sports manipulation.

Justice Minister Elvinas Jankevicius said the country must "close the chapter" and prevent similar legal precedents in the future as he presented Lithuania's actions in the suspected secret CIA prison case on Friday.

The Seimas Ombudsman has called the Parliament to avoid any initiatives limiting the independence of the national broadcaster. The Seimas Ombudsman, Augustinas Normantas, has urged the Parliament to avoid the initiatives that would have a political and/or economic influence on the public broadcaster...

The Council of Europe may adopt a resolution in December, stating that Lithuania fails to meet its international obligation by not implementing the European Court of Human Rights' ruling on paving the way for Rolandas Paksas to stand as a candidate in elections.

The Seimas of Lithuania has adopted a special resolution calling on the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe not to restore the rights of the Russian delegation in this organization.

In December 2014 Barack Obama's administration warned Lithuania about a forthcoming US Senate report on secret CIA prisons.

The Lithuanian government on Wednesday gave its backing to a draft constitutional amendment that would pave the way for the country's impeached former president, Rolandas Paksas, to run both in parliamentary and presidential elections.

The conflict between opposing parties in connection to the ratification of the Istanbul convention on violence against women is too acute and makes it impossible to expect a compromise any time soon, says Lithuania's Social Security and Labor Minister Linas Kukuraitis.

The Istanbul convention on combating violence against women will not be submitted to the Lithuanian parliament for ratification during the spring session, as part of the document is inconsistent with the program of the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union, Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranck...

The Lithuanian Social Security and Labour Ministry proposes to postpone the ratification of the so-called Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women until a compromise is reached on the concept of gender, a position that has angered the country's foreign minister.

The head of Vilnius Women's House, a non-governmental organization running a crisis centre for women, has called on the Lithuanian parliament to ratify the so-called Istanbul Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, saying that it would help fight sexual h...

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) called on Belarus to suspend the construction of its Astravyets nuclear power plant in a resolution adopted on Tuesday.

At Lithuanian parliamentarians' initiative, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe has condemned persecution of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons by Chechen authorities and called for an investigation into the matter.