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The European Commission is aware of the issue of different levels of direct payments for farmers and will make efforts to make these payments uniform across the bloc, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said in Vilnius on Friday.

Polish President Andrzej Duda and top European Union officials are coming to Vilnius on Thursday as festive events marking the centenary of Lithuania's restored statehood are kicking off across the country.

Two-thirds of Lithuanians have no confidence in US President Donald Trump, an opinion poll showed on Thursday.

The Baltic states can expect support of the European Union (EU) to their bid of synchronizing their electricity grids with Western Europe in this and the next multiannual budget, if the decision on the interconnections is made by mid-2018, says Arnoldas Pranckevičius, the head of the European Commis...

President Dalia Grybauskaitė says she has been informed by the European Commission that Lithuania will receive aid to help cover losses caused to its farmers by heavy rains earlier this year.

Lithuania is trying to secure Ukraine's support for its efforts to block the construction of the unsafe Astravyets nuclear power plant in Belarus, but it has received no concrete position from Kiev yet, Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas said.

The European Commission proposes to transform the 500-billion-euro European Stability Mechanism (ESM) into a European Monetary Fund (EMF) to more rapidly respond to financial difficulties in Eurozone member states.

Expansion of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is not in the interest of the European Union, however, the organization has no legal instruments to halt the project, Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager has said in Vilnius.

The Lithuanian government's emergency commission proposed on Monday that the Cabinet declare a nationwide emergency situation after farmers suffered damages estimated at tens of millions of euros due to heavy rains that battered the country at the end of the summer.

Lithuania's is ready to take leadership in the implementation of the project to synchronize the electricity networks of the Baltic states with continental Europe, says Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius, adding that the issue remained one of the key priorities that could no longer be postponed.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė says that she has received assurances from European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker that Lithuania will be able to apply for support to its farmers hit by rainy weather.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is meeting with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker in Tallinn on Friday to discuss the EU's possible support for the planned electricity grid synchronization with the Western European system.

Lithuania's President Dalia Grybauskaitė will meet with European Commission's (EC) President Jean-Claude Juncker in Tallinn on Friday to discuss the European Union's (EU) support to the synchronization of electricity networks with Western Europe, the President's Office said on Thursday.

Lithuanian Agriculture Minister Bronius Markauskas thinks that the European Union should ban international corporations from using different recipes for food products that are sold in Eastern Europe under the same brand names as in Western Europe.

Lithuanian Finance Minister Vilius Šapoka thinks that it is too early to speak about creating an EU finance minister, saying that the focus should now be on planned projects that need to be carried out.

The European Commission's President Jean-Claude Juncker on Wednesday pledged to pay special attention to the Baltic states next year when the celebrate anniversaries of 100 years of independence.

Lithuanian diplomat Vygaudas Ušackas, the European Union's (EU) ambassador to Russia, says he will shortly end his diplomatic service in Moscow and engage in analytical work and politics upon return to Lithuania, listing the demographic crisis as the key challenge in his home country.