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Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 2.4% in April 2024, stable compared to March according to a flash estimate from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.

The European Union’s (EU) migration and asylum rules were tightened in early April, yet President Gitanas Nausėda and Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, who are participating in the 2024 presidential election, disagree whether Lithuania should accept 158 migrants annually or instead pay EUR 3 million ...

Lithuania’s former president Dalia Grybauskaitė believes that the 2024 US presidential election will be a challenge for the European Union.

Heating equipment supplier Vilpra, owned by the family of presidential candidate Ignas Vėgėlė, might have circumvented EU sanctions imposed on Russia and Belarus by supplying goods through Kyrgyzstan, shows a report by journalistic investigation centre Siena, Laisvės TV and Belarusian investigative ...

On Monday, Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis is attending the European Union’s Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg. EU foreign and defence ministers will discuss Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, following an informal exchange of views with Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs...

In the euro area the government deficit to GDP ratio declined from 3.7% in 2022 to 3.6% in 2023, and in the European Union (EU) it increased from 3.4% to 3.5%, reports Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office.

Lithuania has not yet decided whether it will take a quota of asylum seekers set for each year in the wake of the new EU-level decisions on migration and asylum policy, a deputy interior minister says. The alternative would be to pay a few million euros to a support fund instead.

In January 2024, compared with December 2023, seasonally adjusted services production increased by 1.5% in the euro area and by 1.0% in the EU, according to first estimates from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union (EU).

In the fourth quarter of 2023, house prices, as measured by the House Price Index, fell by 1.1% in the euro area and rose by 0.2% in the EU compared with the same quarter of the previous year. In the third quarter of 2023, house prices fell by 2.2% and 1.1% in the euro area and EU, respectively. The...

More details have emerged about law enforcement’s raid at the Labour Party’s headquarters. The Financial Crime Investigation Service (FNTT) has announced that it is investigating misappropriation of property and document forgery.

The debate that broke out in Spain on punishment for animal abuse and sexual exploitation has reached Lithuania. Portals of dubious reputation falsely claim that the European Union prepares for decriminalising bestiality.

Speaker of the Saeima of Latvia Daiga Mieriņa on Tuesday in Riga met with Speaker of the Parliament of Moldova Igor Grosu. She stated that Latvia is and will remain one of the strongest supporters of Moldova’s European integration, reports the press service of the Saeima.

President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda calls to ban Russian grain import to the European Union and to include Russia’s atomic energy corporation Rosatom, more banks and Russian aluminium in the EU’s 14th package of sanctions on Moscow.

Judicial and law enforcement authorities in Italy, Latvia and Lithuania have taken concerted action against a large-scale money laundering business, centring around a Lithuanian financial institution. Since 2017, an estimated EUR 2 billion has been laundered by two main suspects via a worldwide web ...

Europe is not ready to defend itself without the help of the United States, but European countries are making great efforts to strengthen their capabilities, Lithuania’s Ambassador to the European Union (EU) Arnoldas Pranckevičius says.

According to estimates, one Lithuanian citizen generates about 41 kilograms of food waste a year. The member states of the European Union (EU), including Lithuania, have to separate kitchen and food waste from the general municipal waste. Even though the majority of Lithuanians were ordered to do so...

At least 15 searches were conducted in Lithuania and Estonia last week as part of the pre-trial investigation into activities of the Baltcap fund’s former partner Šarūnas Stepukonis, says the European delegated prosecutor.

Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis on 2-3 February attended an informal meeting of Foreign Affairs Ministers (Gymnich) in Brussels to discuss further EU support, including military aid and sanctions, to help Ukraine fight the full-scale Russian aggression, the ministry said.

On Thursday, President Gitanas Nausėda is participating in the European Council meeting in Brussels, where the European leaders agreed on a revision of the EU’s multiannual financial framework to include EUR 50 billion in long-term financial support for Ukraine.

The most recent Transparency International (TI) global Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) saw Lithuania receiving a score of 61 on a 100-point scale, ranking 34th out of 180 countries, the Lithuanian TI office said on Tuesday.