SocietyEU Commission: citizenship is not for sale2014-01-17, 09:44The European Commission on Wednesday warned that European Union citizenship "must not be up for sale" following controversy over a Maltese initiative to grant passports to wealthy foreign investors. Kulturkampf à la Lithuania2014-01-16, 17:47Did Lithuanian authorities get mad with hatred? Or is it a kind of an incurable disease named anti-polonism? This kind of questions must be asked by every sane observer of Lithuanian public life, especially after the recent scandalous events of the end of Lithuanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The dramatic increase of chauvinistic political, administrative and judicial decisions is slowly becoming a threat to the preservation of an identity of national minorities in Lithuania. It is Lithuanian Kulturkampf. L.Linkevičius meets Pope, invites him to Lithuania2014-01-16, 10:29The Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevičius, who is visiting the Vatican City, invited Pope Francis to come to Lithuania. On 15 January, the Foreign Minister took part in the audience of Pope Francis. Short legs of the President lies2014-01-15, 15:59Today, the Forum of Parents of Polish School in Šalčininkai district issued a statement in which the support for yesterday's speech by the Member of the European Parliament Valdemar Tomaševski was expressed. The members of the Forum also state that they have presented the evidence that Reactions after the EAPL deputies' protest prove its rightness2014-01-14, 12:30Yesterday in the Lithuanian electronic media a comment of a man named Artūras Jančys, previously an unknown author, appeared. The comment was provided with a tabloid title Churlish spit of Polish politicians in the face of Lithuania, while the content of the comment did not digress from the unrefined character of the title: it is rough and deprived of a greater value. Palanga hotels are very popular among tourists from Russia2014-01-14, 10:43Palanga was flooded with visitors during New Years' and is still full of people today. Russians are coming to spend their winter holidays here. Local entrepreneurs welcome the generous holidaymakers with various gifts and discounts. airBaltic achieves record punctuality at end-year2014-01-13, 14:22In the last quarter of 2013, Latvian airline airBaltic has achieved record 15-minute punctuality rates – 91.7% in October, 96,2% in November and 93.2% in December 2013. These are record months in terms of punctuality for airBaltic over the past five years. Perverse revolution2014-01-12, 13:20The United Nations declared 2014 as the International Year of the Family. This is a very important declaration, because it coincides in time with the attack on the family, in the scale unprecedented before in the western world. Inglorious leaders are European countries in this action, that are including into it even institutions of the European Union. Legislation absurdities appear. Lobbying of new anti-values is so large that almost every document, report or resolution in European Parliament contains fillers of the subject of gender. The substantive content of the legal act is not important anymore and instead of it, in an intrusive manner, content which is inconsistent with the moral foundation of Europe is being smuggled. EU countries will have to allocate more funds to improve their asylum systems and the integration of migrants under an EP-Council deal backed by the civil liberties committee on Thursday. The new Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund for the next 7 years sets minimum amounts to be spent on asylum and integration policies. MEPs also endorsed the new Internal Security Fund, aimed at improving police cooperation, border surveillance and crime prevention. Grybauskaite awards Medals of January 13 to 9 Lithuanians2014-01-11, 12:21Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaite signed the decree by which 9 citizens of Lithuania who defended Lithuania's Freedom and Independence were awarded the Medals of January 13. |
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