Lithuania

Lithuania’s Supreme Administrative Court has received a complaint from presidential candidate Eduardas Vaitkus, who is contesting the Central Election Commission’s (VRK) decision not to publish his political programme.

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė met with Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson at the Government House in Vilnius. The prime ministers discussed regional security, the need to strengthen and accelerate support to Ukraine, Nordic-Baltic cooperation in the areas of security, energy, and...

German defence company Rheinmetall has announced plans to build an ammunition factory in Lithuania. Deputy Minister of the Economy and Innovation Karolis Žemaitis revealed that the final decision on the plant should become known in near future.

Japanese company Saisei LT is making steps to build a plant that would manufacture food supplements in Alytus after opening a medical clinic in Vilnius, the Verslo Žinios business news website reported Monday.

Lithuania’s anti-Soviet figure, dissident nun Nijolė Sadūnaitė has died aged 85, Bernardinai.lt news website said Sunday.

Only eight percent of Lithuania’s employers would approve a shorter working week, a poll by the Employment agency finds.

President’s chief adviser Frederikas Jansonas rejects criticism directed at President Gitanas Nausėda over purportedly too frequent visits to Lithuania’s rural areas during the 2024 presidential election campaign. According to the adviser, the head of state has been making visits all across Lithuani...

On 29 March 2004, Lithuania became a full-fledged member of the North Atlantic Organisation, NATO. The strongest defensive alliance in the world, of 32 members by this time, is Lithuania’s security guarantee, underscores the Ministry of National Defence.

President Gitanas Nausėda welcomes discussions on the possibility to install small nuclear reactors in Lithuania when developing the renewable energy sector.

Law enforcement conducted searches at the company Alvora, the main contractor that constructed Gas Interconnection Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) in Lithuania. The Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) confirmed to the news website 15min.lt on Thursday that searches were also simultaneously carried ...

Frederikas Jansonas, chief adviser on communication to President Gitanas Nausėda, claims that the head of state did not provide answers to a parliamentary commission because doing so would have legitimised the politicised inquiry. A parliamentary commission had been set up to examine if the State Se...

The parliamentary commission for inquiry into intelligence activities has officially presented its findings at the Seimas. However, the chairs of the Seimas groups decided on Thursday that the commission’s report will not be voted on until after Easter.

The Seimas group of the Homeland Union-Lithuanian Christian Democrats (TS-LKD) has decided to nominate MP Arvydas Pocius, former chief of defence, as chair of the Committee on National Security and Defence (NSGK).

The Parliament on Thursday passed a draft law on abandoning 1 and 2 cent coins. The final sum of the basket of goods and services will be rounded once the legislation takes effect on 1 May 2025.

Conservative MP Arvydas Anušauskas, former minister of national defence, suggests that Conservative MP Arvydas Pocius, former chief of defence, would be appointed as chairman of the Seimas Committee on National Security and Defence.

Law enforcement officers visited the Labour Party’s headquarters on Tuesday and left with a pile of documents. Its Chairman Andrius Mazuronis says the investigation is linked to the previous leadership’s activities in the European Parliament.

President Gitanas Nausėda has doubts about the findings of an ad hoc parliamentary commission that carried out an inquiry into the case of Tomas Gailius, an employee of the State Security Department (VSD) who raised alarm about the activities of the intelligence agency during the 2019 presidential e...

Head of the State Security Department (VSD) Darius Jauniškis assisted President Gitanas Nausėda in his election campaign by collecting information on his circle, a parliamentary inquiry has found.

Gitanas Nausėda started meeting with some Belarusian fertiliser companies months before he was elected president, a parliamentary inquiry finds. The president later actively sought that Belarusian fertilisers would not be sanctioned, it said.

Ten Lithuanian companies each earned more than EUR 100 million pre-tax profit in 2022, reports business news website Verslo žinios (vz.lt).