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The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (the INPP) has been awarded the highest score in the Good Governance Index of A+. The INPP received the highest rating for the first time in 2022-2023, following an analysis of the Annual Report 2022, the Sustainability Report, an assessment of the work of the colleg...
A total of 882.1 thousand people in Lithuania received at least one type of pension at the end of 2022, according to preliminary estimates from the State Data Agency.
Increased financing for the European Union’s (EU) cohesion policy is one of the biggest expectations of the Baltic countries as regards the new Union’s multiannual financial framework, Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nauseda has said, also calling to ensure a fair and unbiased distribution of the prop...
BNS offers a look at what are likely to be key economic and business events in Lithuania in the year ahead.
Lithuania will start looking for companies that would propose a way for 24.2 million euros to dismantle two nuclear reactors of the Ignalina nuclear power plant that was shut down in 2009 and is now being decommissioned.
Energy Minister Zygimantas Vaiciunas says Lithuania will take all possible measures to bar market access for electricity from Belarus' Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant.
A fresh look on an event that almost changed the course of human history. A masterpiece of on-screen storytelling. HBO’s Chernobyl, a massive hit with viewers and critics around the world, has just won 3 Emmy awards.
Lithuania plans to start accumulating funds to build a deep repository for spent radioactive waste from its Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant, which is currently the only safe way to dispose of such waste.
Following the premiere of the HBO series Chernobyl and a reception from viewers that has been more rapturous than that experienced by the finale of Game of Thrones, Lithuania has a message for Chernobyl viewers.
Filmed in Kaunas, the television series inspired by a true yet untold story has premiered.
Lithuania's shutdown Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (INPP), which has been undergoing decommissioning for almost a decade now, has won an arbitration case against Nukem, a German company controlled by Russia's nuclear energy giant Rosatom, over a technology for handling and storing damaged spent nucle...
Philosopher, politician and writer as well as presidential candidate Arvydas Juozaitis says that domestic policy is becoming more and more important and warns that we’ll be confronted with an even bigger wave of emigration and that, in his opinion, physical and military training in schools be steppe...
Lithuanian farmers will not receive the sort of direct grants from the EU as were promised already in 2013. “This means that the EU will owe us,” Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė told LRT Radio before departing to negotiations on the EU’s new budget. However, the situation could be even worse...
The European Union is facing tense negotiations on its next multiannual budget, and the goal to reach the agreement before the next European elections might be challenging to achieve due to various factors including Brexit, Jovita Neliupšienė, Lithuania's ambassador to the EU, said on Tuesday.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis is meeting with his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, in Tokyo on Friday to discuss economic and political relations.
A proposal for the European Parliament to approve the allocation of 780 million euros for the closure of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant is increasing chances for Lithuania to get additional funding, an expert says.
Lithuanian Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas in on Tuesday leaving for Japan to discuss renewable energy, the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant's decommissioning and the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant under construction in Belarus with Japanese politicians and business people.
The European Parliament is recommended to approve 780 million euros in funding for the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant's decommissioning in the EU's next multiannual financial framework, the amount sought by Lithuania and 230 million euros more than proposed by the European Commission.
Lithuania is seeking to secure all necessary funding for the dismantling of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant's reactors and the government is now asking the European Commission for more funds to ensure that works are not interrupted during the switchover from one EU budget period to another, Energy ...
Representatives of the European Parliament and European Commission are coming to Vilnius this week to see the progress of decommissioning of the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant and discuss its funding beyond 2021.
