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The Government on Wednesday officially nominated MEP Andrius Kubilius as Lithuania’s representative in the European Commission.

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė believes that Lithuania should consider changing the procedure for nominating its candidate to the European Commission. The next Seimas could take the matter in its hands, she suggests.

Members of Parliament are set to convene for an extraordinary session on Tuesday next week to vote for Lithuania’s nomination to the European Commission.

Minister of Transport and Communications Marius Skuodis says the transport portfolio in the European Commission would be a major win for Lithuania.

As President Gitanas Nausėda on Thursday signed an official decree approving the nomination of MEP Andrius Kubilius to the European Commission, the Lithuanian Parliament plans to hold an extraordinary session on this matter.

The Lithuanian Government held a sitting on Wednesday and adopted a decree proposing to the president and parliament to approve MEP Andrius Kubilius’ candidacy to the European Commission.

President Gitanas Nausėda denies that he opposed the nomination of Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis to the European Commission out of revenge. He says the leader of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) is mostly interested in foreign politics but not in economic or socia...

The nomination of MEP Andrius Kubilius to the European Commission was agreed last week, president’s chief adviser Frederikas Jansonas has revealed.

A meeting of the coalition council was held on Monday afternoon and Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė named MEP Andrius Kubilius as a potential candidate to the European Commission.

Freedom Party’s leader Aušrinė Armonaitė suggests that Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė should nominate a woman to the European Commission.

This week, the European Commission has allocated an additional 48 million euros of EU funds from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) for the strategically important reconstruction of the last section of the Via Baltica highway from Marijampolė to the Polish border. Following the completion of this ...

Lithuania has filed a lawsuit with the European Union’s General Court over EUR 8.7 million from the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) that has been withheld by the European Commission, which argues that the country has not fully achieved a tax relief indicator.

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė has revealed that Lithuania’s candidate to the European Commission should become clear when Ursula von der Leyen is appointed as President of the European Commission for the second term.

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 debate that broke out in Spain on punishment for animal abuse and sexual exploitation has reached Lithuania. Portals of dubious reputation falsely claim that the European Union prepares for decriminalising bestiality.

Lithuania has received a letter of formal notice from the European Commission over delays in transposing the Pillar Two directive, which imposes a minimum effective corporate income tax rate on multinational companies, the Verslo žinios business news website reports.

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė on Friday held a meeting with European Commissioner for Internal market Thierry Breton at the Office of the Government to discuss strengthening of the European Union’s security and defence industry, and key priorities for the future strategy, also the importance of co...

European Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries Virginijus Sinkevičius will not lead European Greens in next year’s elections to the European Parliament, Politico has reported.

On 23-24 November, Vilnius will host the fifth international Baltic Transport Forum, the largest transport and logistics sector event in the Baltic countries. The milestone event will be opened by President Gitanas Nausėda and Minister of Transport and Communications Marius Skuodis.

President Gitanas Nausėda on Monday participated in an informal discussion on the EU’s strategic agenda at the invitation of the Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, and the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, his office said in a press release.