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Lithuania's parliament will decide whether the state should write down around 100 million euros in compulsory health insurance contributions unpaid by emigrants. If lawmakers back such a proposal, these contributions will no longer be calculated for and recovered from people who left Lithuania.

The Seimas of Lithuania is willing to carry out an investigation into the situation in the agriculture sector in 1991-2017, as 38 lawmakers representing the ruling Lithuanian Farmers and Greens Union want such a probe.

Lithuania will be able send more troops and civilians to international operations in the next two years.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė expects that her meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday will open up the way for Lithuanian businesses to the huge market.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė has called on China to create a more favorable investment environment for EU investment and facilitate conditions for foreign imports.

Colonel Modestas Petrauskas, commander of the Lithuanian Special Operations Forces, is set to be appointed Lithuania's military representative to NATO and the European Union after the parliamentary Committee on National Security and Defense gave the green light to his appointment.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is starting her visit to China and says Lithuania has a unique opportunity that amid trade disputes in the global context and it would be unreasonable not to take advantage of it.

Lithuanian Minister of National Defense Raimundas Karoblis, currently on a visit to Georgia, on Friday met with his Georgian counterpart Levan Izoria.

Tbilisi will continue to seek integration into the West regardless of who wins next Sunday's presidential election, Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani said in Vilnius on Tuesday.

Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani is visiting Vilnius on Tuesday to discuss on his country's EU and NATO integration and the security situation with Lithuanian politicians.

Lithuania will incur an additional burden related to the registration of medicines after Great Britain leaves the European Union.

Lithuania has received 1.6 million euros in funding from the European Union for the promotion of Lithuanian mead and sparkling wine in China and the United States as the EU wants to promote European food products in Europe and the world.

Lithuania creates one of the most favourable conditions in the European Union for the activities of the investment funds. The Government approved draft laws regulating the activities of collective investment undertakings (CIUs) aimed to reduce the administrative burden on investment funds and to cre...

Lithuanians have a favorable opinion about the European Union and the country's EU membership. But the majority of them are convinced that the situation in Lithuania is getting worse, according to the latest Eurobarometer survey.

Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė is on Wednesday leaving for Brussels to meet with other EU leaders and discuss the United Kingdom's stalling exit from the European Union.

Viktoras Pranckietis, the speaker of the Seimas, invited Palestinians to set up a representative office for the Baltic countries in Vilnius and called for closer security cooperation between Lithuania and Israel.

Some 29.6 percent of the Lithuanian population were at risk of poverty or social exclusion in 2017, which was among the highest rates in the EU, figures from the EU statistical office Eurostat showed on Tuesday.

Lithuania's draft 2019 budget projects higher revenue and expenditures and a larger deficit than this year's plan.