The State Defence Council (VGT) has approved a proposal to establish military training areas in the districts of Tauragė and Šilalė, western Lithuania.
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President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, who is paying a visit to Vilnius on Wednesday, held a joint press conference with President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda at the Presidential Palace.
Minister of the Economy and Innovation Aušrinė Armonaitė is sceptical of the presidency’s idea that the State Defence Council could solve the problem of drug use by teenagers. The Freedom Party’s leader says this would be ineffective and instead suggests focusing on awareness raising and prevention ...
President Gitanas Nausėda is considering the possibility of discussing the issue of teen drug use and prevention at the level of the State Defence Council (VGT), his national security adviser says.
Seimas Speaker Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen says she is sceptical of the National Defence Ministry’s proposal for the State Defence Council (VGT) to discuss Lithuania’s withdrawal from a convention banning the use of cluster munitions.
The Prosecutor General’s Office has decided to launch a pre-trial investigation over information revealed by Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas, who announced after a meeting of the State Defence Council on 24 July that Lithuania would purchase German tanks.
Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė says she has confidence in National Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas amidst an uproar after the minister’s social media posts on Lithuania’s intended procurement of German tanks.
On Thursday, President Gitanas Nausėda met with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki in Suwałki to discuss the security situation on the border, the threats posed by the presence of the Wagner group in Belarus, the likelihood of provocations and the readiness to counter them, the presidency repo...
Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis believes the assessment from prosecutors on the national defence minister’s public post on buying German tanks may determine the way institutions and politicians will be handling restricted information in the future.
MP Agnė Širinskienė, chair of the parliamentary group of non-attached MPs, intends to appeal to prosecutors after Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas publicly revealed on Facebook that Lithuania would purchase German-made main battle tanks. Opposition lawmakers claim that the defence min...
Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anušauskas announced after the State Defence Council meeting on 24 July that Lithuania plans to sign a letter of intent on the acquisition of main battle tanks from Germany. Some members of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence have criticised the...
On Wednesday, 19 July, President of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs paid an official visit to Lithuania and met with President Gitanas Nausėda in Vilnius. The heads of state discussed synchronisation of the Baltic States’ electricity system with continental Europe.
Minister of the Interior Agnė Bilotaitė has revealed that officers and services will remain at the highest level of readiness at Lithuania’s border with Belarus as Wagner private military company is moving from Russia to Belarus. Yet she notes that so far Wagner does not pose a direct threat to Lith...
The recent unrest in Russia over the Wagner mercenary group’s mutiny has shown the fragility of the Moscow regime, says President Gitanas Nausėda. That is why, he said, the State Defence Council (VGT) has decided to strengthen intelligence capabilities and accelerate the implementation of the border...
The State Defence Council has approved the National Defence Ministry’s proposal to set up a division-sized military unit in Lithuania by 2030.
When answering the question on the letter of Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis to the Belarusian Prime Minister, Foreign Affairs Minister Linas Linkevičius said the untruth that the decision to build the Bielorusskaja AES in the Astravyets district was allegedly adopted at the end of 2008, a press r...
The striking teachers are awaiting Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis’ apology, but he does not appear intent to do so. The team assembled by the PM, which is preparing a long-term public sector wage payment project features neither striking, nor non-striking teachers. The trade union confederation c...
Lithuania's Parliamentary Speaker Viktoras Pranckietis has called upon political parties to support the proposal of the State Defence Council to raise the defence spending to 2.5 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP) by 2030.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has called on political parties to seek a new political agreement on defence funding amid continuing threats to the country's security.
