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.
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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 ...
By providing answers to parlt inquiry president would have legitimised politicised process – adviser
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.
Lithuania’s new Minister of National Defence Laurynas Kasčiūnas took oath in parliament on Tuesday, 26 March.
Numerous Lithuanian companies and organisations have joined the initiative 4 procentai (4 Percent), calling on the politicians to urgently agree on 4% GDP defence spending and encouraging the public to support the move.
EPSO-G Group, a group of energy transmission and exchange companies, has reported that its audited adjusted net profit for 2023 amounted to EUR 24 million and remained stable compared to EUR 24.7 million in 2022. The Group’s investment in projects to strengthen energy independence was a record of al...
Vilnius City District Court on Friday allowed tracking Šarūnas Stepukonis, former partner of BaltCap Infrastructure Fund, suspected of embezzling and gambling away about EUR 40 million of the fund’s money.
Over twenty organisations raising funds for Ukraine have voiced their support for MP Laurynas Kasčiūnas, current chair of the Seimas security committee, as next defence minister. The move comes after a number of mostly human rights NGOs sent a letter to the president asking not to approve the nomina...
Public confidence in President Gitanas Nausėda fell by four percentage points in the first months of this year, the latest poll commissioned by ELTA finds. Despite that, Nausėda remains the most trusted public figure in the country, with a rating of 20.9%.
Members of parliament have decided to dismiss Secretary General of the Seimas Modestas Gelbūda.
Eight large business sectors saw a fall in staff numbers at the beginning of March this year, compared to March 2023. Meanwhile, the number of employees in enterprises and organisations was still 0.7% higher at the beginning of March this year, reports Scorify, Vilnius-based data analysis company.