PoliticsThe President goes for a working visit to Brussels and Aachen2014-05-27, 10:25President Dalia Grybauskaitė has left for a working visit to Brussels where she will attend an informal meeting of the European Council. Success of the 'Block of Valdemar Tomaševski'2014-05-26, 08:09Elections to the European Parliament (EP) were really successful for the coalition of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania and the Russian Alliance 'Block of Valdemar Tomaševski' - it got more than 92 thousand votes what makes 8,1 percent of all the votes. This way the coalition managed to gain one seat in the EP. It will be again taken by the chairman of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (EAPL) Valdemar Tomaševski. When comparing the results of 2014 elections to the results of 2012 elections, when the EAPL party got 6,1% of votes and crossed the electoral threshold for the first time, the 2014 results were improved by one third. It is worth stressing that the Block of Valdemar Tomaševski took honourable first place in 200 out of 2004 electoral districts in the country. Grybauskaite winning in Lithuanian presidential election2014-05-26, 07:19As results from 1,720 of 2,004 polling districts have been submitted, Dalia Grybauskaite who is seeking for a second term of office is winning. She has received 56.58% of votes so far, while social democrat Zigmantas Balcytis is falling behind with 41.45% of votes. The European elections live on European Parlament special site2014-05-25, 14:55The European elections are in full swing. Europeans are set to decide on the composition of the European Parliament and influence who the president of the European Commission will be for the next five years. Follow the election, the politicians behind it, quotes and polls live from all 28 member states on our special elections page. Lithuanian legislation bans sale of energy drinks to minors2014-05-24, 14:08During the last years, legislation has always been the biggest threat to the energy drinks market in Lithuania. However, the urge for the Government to really take actions came into force when EFSA (European Food Safety Authority) announced the results of the study in 2013 concerning usage of energy drinks in Europe. Only about 12% of Lithuanians believe that the euro changeover will have no negative consequences. The rest of respondents are afraid of various negative consequences of the introduction of the euro: from price rise to a significant loss of national identity, a representative poll commissioned by the Lithuanian Consumer Institute reveals. Lithuania and Estonia have shared interests in the region2014-05-22, 12:45President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with Estonia's new Prime Minister Taavi Rõivas who is on his first visit to Lithuania after taking office on 26 March. UN Committee calls Lithuanian Seimas to establish the National Human Rights Institution in 20142014-05-21, 14:34The Committee against Torture positively evaluated the activity of the Human Rights Division of the Seimas Ombudsmen's Office in undergoing the monitoring of detention places but called the Seimas of Lithuania to make a final decision regarding the establishment of National Human Rights Institution in Lithuania as soon as possible, reports public relations officer from Seimas Ombudsmen's Office Vytautas Valentinavičius. Lithuanian Seimas committee takes interest in regional media financing2014-05-20, 16:02The Seimas Committee on Rural Affairs proposes to the Ministry of Agriculture to turn attention to regional media when preparing Rural Development Programme for Lithuania for the period 2014-2020. Neverovic: future EU energy security strategy must focus on necessity to implement Projects of Common Interest2014-05-19, 14:09Lithuanian Minister of Energy Jaroslav Neverovic participated in Informal Meeting of Ministers for Energy in Athens, the capital of Greece which is presiding over the Council of the EU. |
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