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Politics
The new President: we consider Poland to be Lithuania’s strategic defense ally
President Gitanas Nausėda sworn in on July 12 left for neighboring Poland for his first official visit. Regional...
Parliament decides on new Commission President
MEPs vote on the candidate for the president of the European Commission on Tuesday 16 July. German Defence Minister...
Preparation of a memorandum on developing EU cyber response force begun in Vilnius

The Lithuanian-coordinated project of developing the European Union Cyber Rapid Response Teams (CRRTs) is well...

Inaugural Address by President Gitanas Nausėda at the Seimas

Dear People of Lithuania! Your Excellencies, President Dalia Grybauskaitė, Valdas Adamkus, Vytautas Landsbergis! Mr....

Seimas authorised registration of European political parties in Lithuania

The Seimas adopted the Law on European political parties and European political foundations and the amendments to the...

Seimas delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly attended the annual session in Luxembourg

The annual session of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) held in Luxembourg on 3–8...

Minister of National Defence R. Karoblis welcomes the U.S. decision to deploy more troops in Poland and urges to make decisions concerning...

“We welcome the decision of the United States of America to increase the number of U.S. troops in Poland —...

Plenary highlights: leadership election, formation of committees

The newly-elected MEPs met for their first plenary session on 2-4 July, during which they elected a new president and...

Prime Minister: Lithuania and Latvia share solidarity and common vision for the future of the region

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has met with outgoing Latvian Ambassador Einars Semanis to thank him for his personal...

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Polish education in Lithuania
Danuta Narbut: campaign against Polish schools negatively affects the entire education system
L24 talked to Danuta Narbut, chairwoman of the Vilnius Forum of Polish Parents about accusations of Lithuanian...
The Association of Polish Schools Teachers in Lithuania 'Macierz Szkolna': guarding Polish Education in Lithuania for 25 Years
'Our goal is to form such a Polish school which would be attractive, modern and competitive,' said Juzef Kvetkovskij,...
Michal Mackevič: Polish school in Lithuania has to remain

We talked to Michal Mackevič, President of the Association of Poles in Lithuania, member of the Lithuanian Seimas from...

School-kindergarten 'Vilija' - among the best

About the only school-kindergarten, which keeps up correspondence with the Buckingham Palace and has a star in the...

Šalčininkai district. 13 gymnasiums, 8 of them - Polish

A ceremonial inauguration of the Adomo Mickevičiaus gymnasium in Dieveniškės took place at the beginning of December...

Polish kindergarten in Mickūnai

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Polish nursery-kindergarten in Mickūnai (near Vilnius) will be celebrating its 5th anniversary in just a few months.

Rita Tamašunienė: Poles protected and will protect their ownership

L24 talked to the Chairwoman of the Seimas faction of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania Rita Tamašunienė...

Artur Górski: so that not only Poles would attend Polish schools

We spoke to the Member of the Parliament of the Republic of Poland Artur Górski about the problems of Polish education...

100th Anniversary of Polish education in Paluknys

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2015 year was a jubilee year for the Paluknys Secondary School (Trakai district). The 100th anniversary of the school...

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Economy
Bank of Lithuania together with central banks of Germany and Poland implemented EU Twinning Project in Belarus
The central banks of three EU countries – Lithuania, Poland and Germany successfully implemented the EU Twinning...
Drop in coal, oil flows stopped Lithuanian Railways from growing further
Lithuania's state-run railway company Lietuvos Gelezinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, LG) and its cargo subsidiary LG...
Klaipeda port's cargo volumes up 6.4%

Cargo volumes in the Lithuanian seaport of Klaipeda rose 6.4% to 23.6 mln tons in the first half of this year, from the...

NIB issues EUR 145 mln loan to Lithuania's Klaipedos Nafta

The Nordic Investment Bank has issued a loan of 145 million euros to Klaipedos Nafta, the operator of the LNG terminal...

Newsec: Available office space in Vilnius is set to double in coming years

In recent years the average vacancy rate for offices in Vilnius has been about 3%, one of the lowest rates in Europe....

Lithuania: International trade in services in I quarter 2019

The Bank of Lithuania and Statistics Lithuania announce that in I quarter 2019, exports of services amounted to EUR 2.5...

Lithuania's LNG terminal in Klaipeda reports record results

Lithuania's LNG terminal in the western port of Klaipeda has reported records results for June as about 2.4 TWh of...

Financial and insurance enterprises reduced foreign direct investment in Lithuania

Statistics Lithuania and the Bank of Lithuania publish provisional data on direct investment for I quarter 2019.

1st Hilton hotel opened in Vilnius

Hilton Garden Inn, the first hotel of the Hilton chain, has been opened in central Vilnius on Friday, built by real...

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World
Parliament elects Ursula von der Leyen as first female Commission President
With 383 votes in favour, the European Parliament elected Ursula von der Leyen President of the next European...
Declaration by the High Representative on behalf of the EU on the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
The European Union calls on all States to uphold the integrity of the rules-based international system with effective...
Prime Minister: Relations between the US and Lithuania are closer than ever

Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis met with the United States Ambassador to Lithuania Anne Hall to thank her for her...

Coming up: election of Commission president, humanitarian issues

The election of the new president of the European Commission will be the highlight of the upcoming plenary session in...

The President received letters of credence from the Nuncio of the Holy See

President Dalia Grybauskaitė received letters of credence from Apostolic Nuncio Petar Rajič. The Nuncio also conveyed...

Diplomacy is the cornerstone of the state’s success

President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with the Lithuanian ambassadors and heads of the diplomatic missions to the...

EU-Ukraine Summit: EU steps up its support to the Sea of Azov region

The EU has increased its support to help mitigate the impact of Russia's destabilising actions in the Sea of Azov...

Central Asia: the European Union matches political commitment with further concrete support

To underpin the European Union's political commitment and kick-start the implementation of the new EU Central Asia...

Declaration by the High Representative Federica Mogherini on behalf of the EU on the latest developments in Libya

The shocking attack on the Tajoura detention centre that caused the death of dozens of refugees and migrants and...

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Society
Vilnius to buy 50 new buses for EUR 19 mln
Vilnius will buy 50 new low-floor buses for 19.39 million euros from Adampolis, the Lithuanian partner of Germany's...
US experts checking Lithuania's egg producer Baltic Egg Production
US experts have on Monday started inspecting Lithuania's egg producer Baltic Egg Production, part of Lithuania's...
5 years since the merger of the airports: record-breaking profits and millions in dividends to the state

Precisely 5 years have passed since the time when on 1 July 2014, the merger of all the Lithuanian airports into one...

Reconstruction of the Northern part of the apron planned at Vilnius Airport

Vilnius Airport prepares for an important stage of reconstruction - reconstruction of a part of the apron located in...

More than 260 ideas from architects all over the world for a National Concert Hall

More than 260 architectural ideas from all over the world have been received by the capital city municipality so far,...

Gas supply to Lithuania halted due to gas main's repair in Belarus

Gas supply via a gas pipeline to Lithuania from Belarus has been halted on Monday as Belarus started repairing a gas...

Unemployment inches up to 8% in Lithuania in June

Registered unemployment stood at 8 percent last month in Lithuania, up 0.1 percentage points from May but down 0.3%...

Detained Russian ship to be auctioned off in Lithuania

A detained ship belonging to a Russian company is set to be auctioned off in Lithuania after standing in the port of...

Number of flights in Lithuania's airspace stabilizes – company

The total number of flights in Lithuania's air space in the first half of this year was fairly the same as it was a...

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Sport
Robert Tvorogal wins the gold medal of the European Games
Robert Tvorogal, a gymnast from Vilnius, won the golden medal at the Second European Games held in Minsk.
France reaches the 2018 World Cup Final!
France has won with Belgium 1:0 in the semi-final of the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Today, on July 11th, England will...
Zalgiris coach Jasikevicius named honorary citizen of Kaunas

The City Council of Kaunas on Tuesday named BC Zalgiris Kaunas head coach Sarunas Jasikevicius an honorary citizen of...

BC Zalgiris Kaunas makes it to Euroleague Final Four

BC Zalgiris Kaunas has made it to the Euroleague Final Four for the first time since 1999.

UEFA chief: Lithuania comes in last in terms of football infrastructure

Lithuania comes in last in Europe in terms of football infrastructure, Aleksander Ceferin, president of UEFA, the...

The President attended the opening ceremony of Winter Olympics

President Dalia Grybauskaitė attended the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympic Games in South Korea.

Lithuanian president sees off Olympic team

President Dalia Grybauskaite met on Thursday with Lithuania's national team, who are leaving for the 23rd Olympic...

Ball brothers see Lithuanian town as a stop on their journey to NBA

The two teenage sons of LaVar Ball, a flamboyant Los Angeles businessman who has made headlines due to his feud with US...

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Education
Bachelor in 3 years: faster and more efficient road to education
In the contemporary fast-changing world, the duration of studies is becoming one of the key factors in choosing the...
Vilnius University will create tasks for the International Physics Olympiad 2020
Vilnius University (VU) has become one the hosts of the world's biggest physics event for schoolchildren. Today the...
European Institute of Innovation and Technology: Commission proposes strategy for 2021-2027

The European Commission has proposed an update of the legal base of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology...

European Commission has approved 5 million Euro funding: VU will implement International Alliance projects

The European Commission (EC) today approved funding for the ARQUS European University Alliance. Vilnius University (VU)...

VU Geneticists introduced a Research concerning Lithuanian Origin in Nature Group Journal

This week an article based on research of the Lithuanian genome was published in the prestigious open-access scientific...

Vilnius University – among the ones forming regional life sciences’ strategy

Almost 100 representatives from ten research centres and universities from nine Central and Eastern European (CEE)...

Experience of professor Daniel Jackson after a teaching year at VGTU

Beginning in September of last year, I joined the faculty of the Department of Business Technologies and...

CERN incubators to be established in Lithuania's Vilnius, Kaunas

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) will establish two incubators in the Lithuanian cities of Vilnius...

Half a million funding from EU allocated for improvement of KTU study quality

Great news for prospective Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) students – a significant amount of funds will be...

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