The project for the synchronization of the Baltic power grids with the Continental European system received the green light in Brussels on Friday, the Lithuanian government said.
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Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz has called on Lithuania to amend its legislation so that ethnic minority parties do not have to reach the threshold of votes needed to enter the Seimas.
Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz on Thursday called on Lithuania to allow the original spelling of the names of local Poles in their passports.
Croatia plans to rejoin NATO's multinational battalion in Lithuania in two years' time, the Lithuanian Defense Ministry said.
Poland is relocating its embassy to the Pac Palace, a historic building in Vilnius' Old Time that the neighboring country purchased 11 years ago.
Lithuania has, so far, achieved modest results in combating bribery in international business transactions, but the country has taken significant steps to improve these efforts, Transparency International said in a report published on Wednesday.
Poland is Lithuania's closest strategic partner in the region, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said after meeting his Polish counterpart, Mateusz Morawiecki, in Krynica.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis was on Wednesday named Man of the Year 2017 in the Krynica Economic Forum in Poland.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis on Wednesday arrived in Poland to take part in the Krynica Economic Forum.
Poland plans to boost railway shipments from Orlen's crude refinery in Mažeikiai, in northwestern Lithuania, to Poland, Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis said on Wednesday.
Lithuanian and Polish education ministers have agreed that experts from both countries will draw up by the end of the year guidelines for tackling national minority education issues.
Polish Minister of National Education Anna Zalewska is to pay a visit to Lithuania later this week.
Major Piotr Sadys was accredited as Poland's new defense attaché to Lithuania at the Lithuanian Ministry of National Defense on Wednesday, replacing Colonel Miroslaw Wojcik who has resided in Vilnius since 2015.
The Lithuanian capital saw the number of visitors rise by 8 percent in the first half of 2018 from a year earlier and the total number of overnight stays grow by 6.5 percent to almost a million, Go Vilnius, the city's tourism and business development and agency, said.
The Lithuanian parliament's board refused to give the green light for two conservatives MPs, Rasa Juknevičienė and Audronius Ažubalis, to travel to Poland to make speeches at the Krynica Economic Forum in Poland.
European and US politicians and diplomats, in Vilnius for an international conference, on Wednesday underlined the need for strengthening transatlantic ties in the face of security and economic challenges from Russia and China.
When buying Russian gas and implementing joint energy projects with Russia, Europe funds its armament, former Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko told an international conference in Vilnius on Wednesday.
Transatlantic ties are irreplaceable, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė says amid the recent tension between the European Union and the United States.
Lithuanian Seimas Vice Speaker Arvydas Nekrošius hopes the Lithuanian-Polish inter-parliamentary assembly will resume work this year following a break of almost ten years.