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The European Union should urgently fulfil its commitments and supply Ukraine with one million artillery pieces, stresses Asta Skaisgirytė, chief foreign affairs adviser to President Gitanas Nausėda.

Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė on Friday held a meeting with European Commissioner for Internal market Thierry Breton at the Office of the Government to discuss strengthening of the European Union’s security and defence industry, and key priorities for the future strategy, also the importance of co...

In the third quarter of 2023, house prices, as measured by the House Price Index, fell by 2.1% in the euro area and by 1.0% in the EU compared with the same quarter of the previous year. In the second quarter of 2023, house prices fell by 1.5% and 0.9% in the euro area and EU, respectively. These fi...

Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis argues that the State Security Department (VSD) has been given a disproportionate assignment to screen every Belarusian citizen who enters Lithuania.

The economy minister says Lithuania has exhausted all the means at its disposal to restrict the entry of European goods into Russia amid renewed public debate on the continued operations of the Vičiūnai Group in Russia.

Lithuanian instructors have trained 2,900 Ukrainian soldiers this year, the military said. Trainings are planned for another 3,500 Ukrainians next year.

Lithuania’s economy has been at about the same level for the second year in a row, i.e. it is neither expanding nor weakening. Next year it will exit the period of stagnation as a result of private consumption driven by real income growth and recovering demand in export markets. However, the full po...

On 18 December, the European Union adopted a new package of sanctions, stepping up restrictive measures against Russia. The package imposes additional restrictions on Russia’s economy and 147 individuals and entities are added to the sanctions list, reports the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia...

Groups of companies in Lithuania pay 20% of the total corporate income tax collected in Lithuania, according to an analysis by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), reports Verslo žinios.

President Gitanas Nausėda expects that the European Union (EU) will agree on a financial support package of EUR 50 billion to Ukraine in January.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Gabrielius Landsbergis hopes that this week the European Council will adopt decisions favourable for Ukraine. Yet he admits that so far there are no alternatives in case Hungary keeps blocking talks on Ukraine’s EU accession.

Klaipėda Municipality has procured 13 electric buses, which will replace old diesel-powered buses in mid-December.

President Gitanas Nausėda says the situation with blocked Ukrainian trucks on the Polish border is difficult as the countries involved lack the will to settle the dispute.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielius Landsbergis is critical of Hungary’s standpoint on Ukraine ahead of the European Council’s meeting that will discuss the European Union’s enlargement.

Ukraine hopes to start real negotiations for European Union accession early next year, says Oleh Nikolenko, spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine. Institutional reform of the EU should not be a mandatory condition for EU enlargement, he said.

The Management Board of the European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA) has elected its Lithuanian member, Ms Evelina Gudzinskaitė, as its new chair. A graduate of Vilnius University, she has served as director of the Migration Department under the Ministry of Interior in Lithuania since 2015, the EUAA ...

Can we say that the borders of the European Union (EU) are safe from abuse by the agents of the Kremlin? No, we cannot. And this is not just a small vulnerability. It is a massive, but hopefully not a deliberate access route into the EU, which is used by those, whom we most need to keep out: Kremlin...

President Gitanas Nausėda on Monday participated in an informal discussion on the EU’s strategic agenda at the invitation of the Chancellor of Germany, Olaf Scholz, and the President of the European Council, Charles Michel, his office said in a press release.

Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 2.9% in October 2023, down from 4.3% in September according to a flash estimate from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.

Is there opposition in Russia? Do Russian people support the war? Are liberal ideas popular only in Moscow and a few other large cities: myth or reality? Why did Putin’s regime decide to kill Nemtsov and imprison Navalny? You will hear answers to these and many other questions in Delfi’s interview w...