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Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nauseda has appointed MP Rimantas Sinkevicius of the Social Democratic Labor Party of Lithuania as the country’s economy and innovation minister, the president's press service said.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis has on Monday nominated MP Rimantas Sinkevicius for the position of economy and innovation minister, the government said.

A proposal to hold a dual citizenship referendum in Lithuania on two days with a gap of two weeks might run counter to the country's Constitution and Lithuania might be held up to ridicule for holding such a vote, en expert in constitutional law says.

Eight members of the political group of the Lithuanian Social Democratic Party terminated their membership in the party on Saturday, just an hour before the Social Democratic Party's council was planned to consider their expulsion over refusal to obey the party's decision.

The Lithuanian Social Democratic Party’s (LSDP) MPs who have opted to continue cooperation with the ruling Farmers and Greens Union (LFGU), want the party’s congress to annul the decision by the party’s council to withdraw from the coalition.

The transport sector’s contribution to the country’s GDP is over 13%, but Lithuania has no clear transport strategy which could be implemented. The representatives of various fractions in Seimas doubt whether consensus could be reached regarding this among the national parties.

Stasys Dailydka who resigned from the post of CEO of Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, or LG) last week says it was the best decision he had made in life.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius and Transport Minister Rimantas Sinkevičius say that Polish-owned oil refinery Orlen Lietuva and the state-owned railway company Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways) should resume negotiations over transportation rates that broke down in May. To read this ...

The European Commission has warned Lithuania about sanctions over two issues: the market domination of its state-owned railway company and restrictions on selling land to foreigners. Minister of Transport Rimantas Sinkevičius says the sanctions are not unexpected.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Minister of Transport and Communications Rimantas Sinkevičius will discuss the European Commission's accusation that Lithuanian Railways abused its dominating position and the several tens of millions of Euros in fees for the demolished track to Renge in L...

The road maintenance and development program (KPPP) finance estimates submitted by the Ministry of Transport and Communications were approved by the government on Monday. The amount earmarked for road development and maintenance was €454 million, or 16.8 percent, larger than it was in 2015.

Chinese representative are coming to Lithuania to inspect Rail Baltica, the European-gauge railway project that will connect the Baltic states and Western Europe with a view to bidding for contracts, LRT reports.

"The transport sector is one of the major and most significant components of economic and social infrastructure. It is, therefore, necessary that particular attention is paid to it. During the 2014-2020 financial period, more than EUR 1.5 billion in EU structural funds are to be invested in this sec...

Following the Government's decree, Russian carriers using Lithuanian roads will have to pay a road tax starting on 21 December. The move is a response to Russia's decision to tax Lithuanian road carriers.

Statistics indicate that road and railway traffic has become considerably safer in the first half of 2015 in Lithuania.