Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis says Moscow’s latest accusation levelled at the Baltic States is yet another sign that Lithuania must boost its security.
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President Gitanas Nausėda on Tuesday opened the Infobalt association’s international event "AIcebreakers: Vision for Lithuania", the president's office reports.
The Central Electoral Commission (VRK) on Monday confirmed it had received an application of Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė to join the presidential election campaign.
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 Chief Official Ethics Commission (VTEK) has established that President Gitanas Nausėda and Ambassador of Lithuania to the United Kingdom Eitvydas Bajarūnas mixed private and public interests as their visit to the Royal Opera House in May 2023 was private but paid for by the embassy. The media ha...
On 31 January, President of Latvia Edgars Rinkēvičs will meet with Mrs Olena Zelenska, the first lady of Ukraine, at the Riga Castle. The meeting will focus on supporting Ukraine and its people, the human rights situation in Ukraine, as well as the return of Ukrainian children illegally deported by ...
The Chief Official Ethics Commission (VTEK) has held that the president and the ambassador to the UK violated the law on public and private interests by going to the Royal Opera House in London after it found that the visit was private and paid for by the embassy.
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.
President Gitanas Nausėda has delegated his chief adviser, Jarek Niewierowicz, to meet with protesting farmers due to his own busy agenda including meetings outside Vilnius.
Latvia’s President Edgars Rinkēvičs on Tuesday met with Lieutenant General Leonids Kalniņš, Commander of the National Armed Forces (NBS), at the Riga Castle, the presidency reports.
The Labour Party on Monday nominated its leader Andrius Mazuronis as a candidate in the 2024 presidential election, which will take place on 12 May.
Mayor of Kazlų Rūda, Mantas Varaška, has decided to withdraw from the 2024 presidential election, complaining about the lack of support from the Lithuanian Regions Party, which had endorsed him at first.
MP Remigijus Žemaitaitis has announced he will run for president despite facing allegations of antisemitism.
At the World Economic Forum in Davos, President Gitanas Nausėda met with Christian Sewing, CEO of Germany’s Deutsche Bank, one of the world’s largest financial institutions, the president’s office reports.
President’s chief national security adviser Kęstutis Budrys expects a law on defence and security industry to be adopted in spring. It would ensure more effective cooperation between authorities and defence industry companies, as well as more flexible regulation of these companies.
Former president of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus, who held office in 1998-2003 and 2004-2009, doubts that Donald Trump would win the 2024 United States presidential election.
If incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda faced Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė in the second round of 2024 presidential elections, he would secure a landslide victory, shows a review of two polls published by the news website 15min.lt. The next presidential race will take place in May 2024.
Next presidential elections will be held in Lithuania on 12 May 2024. Parliament passed the decree in question on Thursday with 119 votes in favour, 1 vote against and 1 abstention.
It has transpired that MP Algirdas Butkevičius is one of potential presidential candidates of the party Democrats For Lithuania. He served as Lithuania’s prime minister in 2012-2016. The nomination will be decided by the end of the week.
The latest poll shows that the majority of Lithuanians have the most favourable opinion about incumbent President Gitanas Nausėda.