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...
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The Government has granted a first-degree state pension to Lithuania’s most celebrated international concert pianist Mūza Rubackytė-Golay, winner of the National Prize for Culture and Arts.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Šarūnas Narbutas, ex-president of the Lithuanian Cancer Patient Coalition (POLA), was detained unlawfully in a pre-trial investigation into the Government’s purchase of reagents for COVID-19 testing more than three years ago.
On Monday, 18 December, Lithuanian and German defence ministers signed the action plan on the planned deployment of a German brigade in Lithuania.
The National Security Commission has instructed public authorities to submit proposals for measures to reduce the number of vehicles and people crossing into Lithuania from Belarus.
The Government has approved the candidature of Andrius Krivas as Lithuania’s ambassador to the Council of Europe.
President Gitanas Nausėda on Wednesday signed the 2024 state budget that was passed earlier in December by parliament.
The Government does not plan to introduce national restrictions due to the rising incidence of Covid-19, says Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė.
On Tuesday, 5 December, the Seimas of Lithuania adopted the 2024 state budget. Now the budget has to be signed by President Gitanas Nausėda.
The Lithuanian Education Employees’ Trade Union (LŠDPS) will resume its teachers’ strike on Tuesday. Teachers on a walkout plan to observe a parliamentary sitting in which the 2024 budget will be approved.
National Defence Minister Arvydas Anušauskas on Thursday is leaving for the United States to take part in the Reagan National Defense Forum, the ministry has said.
Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė on Monday attended the Lithuanian Defence and Security Industry Awards, the first event of this kind held in the country.
According to the National Education Agency (NŠA), 2,200 education employees were on strike on Friday, 24 November, around 1,940 of them teachers.
The Seimas on Thursday voted to approve a compromise proposal to increase the salaries of prosecutors in two stages. Prosecutors would receive a pay amounting to 75% of the salaries paid to judges of the same rank from 2024 and 90% from 2025.
The National Education Agency (NŠA) has announced that approximately 1,900 education employees, of them around 1,690 teachers, resumed their strike on Wednesday morning.
On Tuesday, the first reading of the state budget for 2024 took place in parliament. Following the law, the draft of the budget was then returned to the Government for amendment.
China's state-owned utility holds a stake in Ocean Winds, which is set to build an offshore wind farm in Lithuania, along with Ignitis Group, Verslo žinios business news website reports.
MPs on Tuesday voted to cross out the first reading of the 2024 state budget legislation from the agenda of the Seimas’ plenary sittings.
Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė, longtime favourite in the polls on who would make the best prime minister, has finished second in the latest one. Social Democrat leader Vilija Blinkevičiūtė took a narrow lead, a poll by Spinter for news website delfi.lt finds.
On Wednesday, the Government decided that the tender for the right to develop the second 700 MW offshore wind farm would be launched on 15 January 2024, reports the Ministry of Energy.